birthday poems for aunts

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



We are punished by our sins, not for them. ~Elbert Hubbard



I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value. ~Author Unknown



The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. ~Havelock Ellis



Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson



Codi: "Like a note you'd send somebody after you'd stayed in their house?"



Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens



Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711



The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~Elias Canetti



Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown



Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks. ~Author Unknown



Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff



Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb



Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~Lewis Carroll



Quote A: �The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.� ~Jon Stewart Quote A: �Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.� ~C.A. Johnson



Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain



It's okay to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. ~Steve McConnell



Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown



Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I made you." ~Author Unknown

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