happy birthday poems for a friend

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome



Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher



God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ~Samuel Butler, "Prose Observations"



We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914



No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold



Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886



I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore



All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow



If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. ~Jay Leno



Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ~Proverbs 26:12



Evolution is individual - devolution is collective. ~Martin H. Fischer



But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge. ~Philip Massinger, Fatal Dowry, 1632



I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part. ~John Wittenborn



When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ~Woody Allen



To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White



Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato