birthday wishes poems for friends

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau



If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel



Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan



Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson



Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food. ~Robert S. Mendelsohn



There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. ~John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689



When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. ~Steven Wright



My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury



If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ~Paul Gallico



Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov



No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw



I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. ~Yannick Noah



There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. ~Author Unknown



I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ~Mark Twain



Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. ~Author Unknown



When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~Author unknown, from a Washington Post word contest