best birthday quotes for friends

Chocolate is like medicine - but as with medicine, the key is the proper dose. Don't overdo it. ~Edward "Grandpa" Jones


No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907


The Internet is full. Go away. ~Author Unknown


The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways. ~Johnnetta Betsch Cole


No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. ~William Ralph Inge


In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. ~Henry Brooke


A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ~Jesse Owens


And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke


What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur


What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ~Arnold Glasow


Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ~Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game


God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ~Alfred Jarry, Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, 1911


Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett


The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet


Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is. ~Carol Siskind


We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi


It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin