happy birthday quotes

Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around. ~Author Unknown



When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ~Woody Allen



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



Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz



To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. ~Timothy Healy



I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both. ~Kierkegaard



A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. ~Thomas Jefferson



"Safety First" is "Safety Always." ~Charles M. Hayes



Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity. ~E. Knight



He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~Winston Churchill



Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. ~Charles Medawar



You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. ~Walter Lippmann



In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. ~Andre Gide



Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes. ~E. Haldeman-Julius, The Church Is a Burden, Not a Benefit, In Social Life



Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust



There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton



Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer



Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ~Richard Cowper



If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965