birthday poems for grandpa

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard



Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. ~Victor Kiam



Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. ~Sam Snead, about golf



The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ~Jimmy Connors, on experience



Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne



Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen



This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall



You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~Bernard M. Baruch



My cock doesn't talk politics. ~Stephal Sachs



I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. ~Ralph Abernathy



Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ~Thomas de Quincey



A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois



Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde



Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905



Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. ~Dave Barry



I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. ~Kurt Vonnegut



It satisfies no normal need. I like it.



The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher