birthday poems for best friends

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret



It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ~Alfred Adler



We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764



Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks



Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold Toynbee



Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis



Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ~Israel Zangwill Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. ~Charles Kingsley



I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee. ~Jay Leno



It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. ~Isabel Waxman



There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. ~Nicolas Chamfort There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931



You're never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin



The church is the great lost and found department. ~Robert Short



But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked." ~Molly Ivins



Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb



It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~Cynthia E. Varnado



It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller



Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~Martha Graham



In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer