happy birthday dad poems

The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker. ~Author Unknown



Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Secret Riddle," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595



All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln



We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith



During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970



All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Francois Fenelon



The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing



It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ~Colette, My Mother's House, 1922



Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett



I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming



In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ~Charles Baudelaire



The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Antanaclasis: repeating a single word but with a different meaning each time. This is a common type of pun and is often found in slogans. Example: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." ~Vince Lombardi



But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. ~The New Yorker



An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. ~Lemony Snicket



What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ~Henry Havelock Ellis

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