birthday quotes with images

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ~T.S. Eliot



Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson



Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Faith is never identical with piety. ~Karl Barth



A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden



The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ~Anita Loos, New York Times, 10 February 1974



"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. ~James Morrow



I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. ~W. Somerset Maugham



Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. ~Madeleine Vionnet



Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. ~Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct



A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown



How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. ~Oscar Wilde



"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass



I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner



More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No man's credit is as good as his money. ~E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons