birthday quotes for a brother

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett


What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem


You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. ~Dan Birdwell


A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ~Edward Teller


I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak


But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. ~Francis Darwin


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family


For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. ~Elizabeth Bowen


How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset


Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist


If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


I want you to remember, I intend this breast satirically. ~Coupling, "Flushed," original airdate 12 May 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Susan


What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses


Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. ~Ugo Betti


So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington


History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~Dexter Perkins


He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ~Rudyard Kipling


I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ~Voltaire


I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith


You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown