birthday quotes for friendship

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley



Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. ~Rita Mae Brown



Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy



We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill



Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~Timothy Leary



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau



No one wants advice - only corroboration. ~John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent



Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ~Rebecca West



Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



It was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. ~John Toland



If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. ~Charles Dickens



Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. ~Greek Proverb



Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. ~Rita Mae Brown



The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer