happy birthday quotes for a friend

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield



Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~St. Augustine



Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard



Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ~Robert Frost



Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so. ~Robertson Davies, "Of the Conservation of Youth," The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks



Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. ~Truman Capote



Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. ~Author Unknown



Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley



I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain



I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man? ~John A. Livingston, in Borden Spears, ed., Wilderness Canada, 1970



There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ~Josh Billings



Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. ~Billie Holiday



A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception. ~George Bernard Shaw



The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott



Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher



Great art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc Chagall



It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ~Sinclair Lewis



Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz