birthday cards poems

Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck



It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9



History is an argument without end. ~Pieter Geyl



Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. ~Fay Weldon



Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William A. Ward



You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! ~J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown



I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee. ~Carly Simon



Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown



We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. ~Phyllis Theroux



We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. ~James Cromwell



Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911



It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron



The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~Edward Abbey



Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb



It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim. ~Author Unknown



The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session (Thanks, Paul)



Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement. ~Paul Tsongas



Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant