birthday quotes for mothers

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick


The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada


Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb


If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift


The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ~Edward Phelps


God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Quilters never cut corners. ~Author Unknown


Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara


There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer


I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re�stablish the truth. ~Martin H. Fischer


This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning. ~Old Vaudeville joke


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890


Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships. ~James Shubert


For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman


Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~J. Petit-Senn


We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. ~Norman Cousins


To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com