poems for birthdays

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ~Gloria Leonard



For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. ~Francis Bacon



It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916



In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen



Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950



Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ~Lane Olinghouse



If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday. ~A.A. Milne



Everything's got a moral if only you can find it. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland



Do not nurse a kid who wears braces. ~Author Unknown, "Nursing Mother Principle"



Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown



In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ~Frank Wilczek



The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932



I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977



A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow



Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~J.C.F. von Schiller



History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ~Jules Romains, Men of Good Will



No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. ~Frederica Mathewes-Green