happy birthday grandma poems

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca


If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld


The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


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


Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford


War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ~Charles Evans Hughes


Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ~Thomas Szasz


A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. ~Luke 12:15


Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler


The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard


A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953


Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt! ~Robin Williams


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton


If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. ~Donald D. Quinn


What Washington needs is adult supervision. ~Barack Obama


There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ~Mark Twain


The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle


Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations


According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com