birthday greetings quotes

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West



Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. ~Lady Bird Johnson



Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. ~Doug Gwyn



A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted. ~Author Unknown



Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ~Paul Gray



The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure. ~Author Unknown



When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb



Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw



Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock



Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~Thomas Drummond



The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos



Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. ~The Talmud



Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. ~Peter Minard



I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up. ~Author Unknown



It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ~John Stuart Mill



If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did." ~Saturday Night Live, Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts "