happy birthday poems for mums

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln



As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe



My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets



Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. ~Jerry Seinfeld



In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



All the windows of my heart I open to the day. ~John Greenleaf Whittier



Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~Mark Twain



Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ~Edgar Watson Howe



A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum



Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown



Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner. ~Barbara L. Diamond



Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut



Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson



You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. ~Roy Campanella



Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard



He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. ~William Shakespeare, Henry V



The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. ~Richard Bach



Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844