birthday quotes to a friend

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800



Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce



Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970



It's all in the attitude - housework is exercise. Slim your way to a clean home! ~Linda Solegato



It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ~George Burns



We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret



I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them. ~John Barrow, 1973



How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? ~Author Unknown



Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley



If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. ~Martin H. Fischer



Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated



Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ~Lynn Hecht Schafren



Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday



No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett



In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ~John James Ingalls



The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach



Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones



Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements