birthday quotes for friendship

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles. ~Lorraine Skylark



I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." ~Will Rogers



Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp



Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson



In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~J.K. Rowling, "Padfoot Returns," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Sirius Black



The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown



Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine. ~A.P. Herbert



Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game. ~Burt Shotten



When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



More grievous than tears is the sight of them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. ~Author Unknown



The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler



A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus



Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists



A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle. ~Author Unknown



Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. ~Victor Hugo



Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!" ~Somerset Maugham



The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. ~Charles Francis Adams