birthday poems for love

The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works



A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~Rupert Brooke



We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. ~Bill Maher



To win, you've got to put the ball in the macrame. ~Terry McGuire



Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn



We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo



Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. ~Jack London



And I irritably reflected that you can't take a step from the equator to the poles without running into that suspicious face, those rapacious eyes, those clawlike hands and that vile mouth, which goes breathing the frightful verses of the Bible, in an odor of stale gin, over the charming divinities and adorable myths of naive religions. ~"The Garden," Chapter 5



Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905



Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades



I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation. ~Rev. Jerry Falwell



St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. ~Adrienne Cook



Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets



A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde



Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. ~Thurman Arnold



Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. ~Roul Turley



How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. ~Dorothy Parker



At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund



Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~Horace Mann



Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. ~Bern Williams