happy birthday poems for friends

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. ~Vauvenargues



Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968



Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. ~George Bernard Shaw



No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde



The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~Joe Garagiola, Baseball is a Funny Game



Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929



Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw



Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman



What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Art is an adventure that never seems to end. ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ~Garrison Keillor



Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ~Robert Orben



Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke



While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917



Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

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