birthday poems for someone special

Poured a cup of hot sepia coffee in a wisteria flowered mug, dandelion sunshine spilling through the periwinkle sky. ~Terri Guillemets


Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer


Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. ~Sylvester Stallone, 1990


Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. ~Arianna Stassinopoulos


If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic


If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann


Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown


You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh


Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold," Mr. Spock


Quote A: �Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.� ~Steuart Henderson Britt


When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles


Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle


With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ~Norman Mailer


What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. ~Hubert H. Humphrey


Hug Department: Always Open ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown


Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com