happy birthday poems for a sister

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. ~David H. Comins



Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909



For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ~Seneca



Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948



Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown



The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here. ~Steve Forbes



If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola. ~From Strangers with Candy



Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw



Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~George Bernard Shaw



Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda



Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ~W.B. Yeats



The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ~John Egan



Before I travelled my road I was my road. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays



The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. ~H.G. Wells



The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty



Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary Phoebe: "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!... It's a poem. By Robert Burns."



I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~Wendell L. Wilkie