birthday poems for friendship

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare



Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage - leave sagacity to the autumn! ~Linda Solegato



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 dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes



Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, "Hosts and Guests," 1918



It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ~Tom Stoppard, Jumpers



For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot



One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb



Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life - for the parents. Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast. ~Sally and James Reston Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown



I use the word "fat." I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight. There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat! ~George Carlin



It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



The most sensitive members of the human and animal populations are much like the canaries in the mines. They are the first to show distress, often becoming ill for unknown reasons. They provide the distant early warning for us all. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005



But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young



Firefighting is all about ass - busting ours to save yours. ~Author Unknown



Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975



The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley



What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. ~Henry David Thoreau



Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown



The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason



If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb