birthday quotes for nephew

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood. ~Louisa May Alcott


This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders


Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968


Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey


To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman


The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson


A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. ~Charles Baudelaire, "Advice to Young Writers," 1867


A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos


Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~Baltasar Gracian Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. ~Jim Malusa


Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~Al Boliska


Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. ~Author Unknown


There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan


Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. ~Archibald Philip Primrose


It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. ~Malcolm Forbes


The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. ~Robert Lynd


Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris


Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown


To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol


Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. ~George Saintsbury