birthday quotes for children

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~Marcel Proust



What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ~Henry Havelock Ellis



Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ~William Makepeace



Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold



If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? ~Bertrand Russell



Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. ~Author Unknown



If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky



Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats



All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~Georges Clemenceau



No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean Nathan



The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans. ~Author Unknown



But ne'er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick



Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices. ~Shana Alexander



Did you hear about the baby born with organs of both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. ~Author Unknown



We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ~Terri Guillemets



I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938



A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. ~Arnold Toynbee



Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show



Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. ~Author Unknown