happy anniversary quotes

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. ~Robert A. Heinlein



There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown



Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower? ~Warren Hutcherson



He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ~Oscar Wilde



Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "Pilot," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano



...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Chim?ra," A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, 1852 (about Pegasus)



Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world. ~Samuel Johnson



What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw



History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel



We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart. ~Margaret Gibb



See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII



People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams



Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that. ~Jim Murray



Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ~John Erskine



The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!



I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956



Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet



The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~Willa Sibert Cather



Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ~Samuel Johnson



Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. ~E.W. Howe