18th birthday quotes funny

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while. ~Max Eastman I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978



The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier



If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw



The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo



A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885



Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist. ~Author Unknown



Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. ~Wilfrid G. Oakley



A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown



To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. ~Anton Chekhov



Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~Christian Nevell Bovee



Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb



Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag. ~Helen Thomson



Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey



A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives



Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams



At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster



When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670