birthday quotes for uncle

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ~Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high.



Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. ~Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969



Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini



If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. ~Lemony Snicket



Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. ~Author Unknown



Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. ~Roger L'Estrange



The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway



Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy



No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton



I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn. ~William Cullen Bryant



Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com



Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~Author Unknown



One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites. ~Jin Kwon



All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954



Antimetabole: figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause. It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy



Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris



With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug, sleep tight little one like a bug in a rug. ~Author Unknown



In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris



Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ~Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland