happy birthday my love poems

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. ~Pearl S. Buck



Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson



If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets



One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. ~Grey Livingston



Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)



There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad



We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711



There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux



I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It's the liniment working. ~Author Unknown



The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner



Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard



If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. ~Martin H. Fischer



In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine



I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore



Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky



A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space. ~Author Unknown



It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. ~J.J. Bentley



Wimps lift weights, cheerleaders lift people. ~Author Unknown



All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli