quotes on birthday

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf



If your lens is prejudice, you're wearing the wrong prescription. ~Carrie Latet



When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford



I am fond of children - except boys. ~Lewis Carroll



Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420



If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. ~Ecclesiastes 8:15



A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold



No nice men are good at getting taxis. ~Katherine Whitehorn, the Observer, 1977



Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



Horses lend us the wings we lack. ~Author Unknown



No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather



We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley



Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead



Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite



Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. ~Gregory Bateson



Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863



His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ~Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749