best quotes on birthday

Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb


It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903


Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. ~Brian Kernighan


I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb


I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth


We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~Gloria Steinem


The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~Thomas Wolfe


The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ~Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes


Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle


To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White


We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa


Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. ~Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956


Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."? ~Dave Sokolowski


Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002


It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ~Alfred Jarry, Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, 1911


Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974