birthday poems for someone special

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton



Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. ~Jean Kerr



It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. ~Alfred North Whitehead



He loves his country best who strives to make it best. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



The blossom time of souls. ~Katherine Lee Bates



The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ~Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958



We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man



In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion



I don't have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine! ~Author Unknown



The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ~William Shakespeare



You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb



Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love



Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~Sophia Loren



Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ~Frederick Douglas



Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown



Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark



Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley