birthday quotes for sister

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ~Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game



No man does right by a woman at a party. ~Harry Golden



A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton



The best part of happiness is the pines. ~Terri Guillemets



The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ~David Brinkley



It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo



As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~Voltaire



After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy



Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen



People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ~Ogden Nash



Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989



My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~Robert A. Stern



God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. ~Terri Guillemets



Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb



I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ~H.T. Leslie



You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~G.K. Chesterton



The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~Evelyn Waugh



Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. ~Bert Murray