birthday quotes for a best friend

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter



America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ~e.e. cummings



Property is the pivot of civilization. ~Leon Samson



It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ~Thurgood Marshall



Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~Thomas Fuller



Thousands have gone to heaven who never read one page of the Bible. ~Francis A. Baker



If you're enjoying your depression, then for goodness sake do not go skipping. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler



After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. ~Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs," printed in The National Review (London, 1895) (Thanks, Mark)



Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats



I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. ~Luke Perry



It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~Robert Frost



The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ~William Lloyd Garrison



Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer



God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown



Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air. ~Jim Murray



Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. ~E.M. Cioran



A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. ~Gloria Steinem A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~Author Unknown