birthday quotes and sayings

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865


Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin


Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? ~Henry Ward Beecher


Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb


If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld


Some stories are true that never happened. ~Elie Weisel


I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ~Reuben Blades


The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. ~A.C. Van Cherub


Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ~Elbert Hubbard


On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. ~Bruce Willis, on the difference between men and women


The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings


War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ~Napoleon Hill


The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"


I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith Sodergran


Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark


Perhaps there should be one day a week when you tackle your "Things I Gotta Undo" list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I'm not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton


The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ~David Brinkley


The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. ~Author Unknown