nice quotes on birthday

They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



These blessed candles of the night. ~William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice



There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson



She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of plain good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, about the character Mag Wildwood



To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings



Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain



Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ~Pascal, Pensees, 1670



An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ~Henry L. Mencken



We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. ~Mark Victor Hansen



Midnight bugs taste best. ~Author Unknown



I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. ~Josh Billings



Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. ~Edith Wharton



I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~Franklin P. Adams



No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul. ~Bruce McCall, "The Case Against Golf," Esquire



As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ~George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations



A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ~Anatole France



Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt



Fatigue is the best pillow. ~Benjamin Franklin