funny birthday cake quotes

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome



The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate



Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~Roger Kahn



Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~Voltaire



There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922



The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan



Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan



The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown



It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station. ~Michael Herr



A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~Pablo Picasso



Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. ~Ani Difranco



There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas



The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. ~Andy Warhol



If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola. ~From Strangers with Candy



Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~A.A. Milne



Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. ~William Shakespeare



Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973



I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout