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Birthday Quotations
- We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
- Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial - Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
- Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
- The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
- You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
- They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
- Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
- First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
- Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
- Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
- I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
- A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
- Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
- Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
- Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
- Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Friendship Quotations
- A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
- Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
- A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
- Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
- The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
- A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
- The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
- A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown
- If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe
- The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
- A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare - The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake
- A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown
- One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana
- A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
- If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson
- True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
- You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter
- Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown
- A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
- One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis
- The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin- A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
- Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Life Quotations
- Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck- The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~Elwyn Brooks White
- Life is simple, it's just not easy. ~Author Unknown
A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella- Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach
- Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden- I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey
- Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley,Thunder on the Left
- Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962 - In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris
- To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
- Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
- My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes- You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp
- As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown
- I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller- Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown- You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson
- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown- Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg
- To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. ~Jeremy Taylor
- Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
- God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
- Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
- I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey
- My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ~Cary Grant
- To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis
- My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic
- No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838
- Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." ~Maya Angelou
- Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
- You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus
Hugs Quotations
- Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. ~Jacques Prévert
- A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~Bil Keane, "Family Circus
- Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia
- You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug. ~Author Unknown
- Hug Department: Always Open ~Author Unknown
- I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore
- No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Arm ourselves for war? No! All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author Unknown
- I will not play at tug o' war
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs....
~Shel Silverstein - A hug is a handshake from the heart. ~Author Unknown
- You can't give a hug without getting a hug. ~Author Unknown
- A hug delights and warms and charms,
that must be why God gave us arms.
~Author Unknown - Hugs are the universal medicine. ~Author Unknown
- A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. ~Author Unknown
- Happiness is an unexpected hug. ~Author Unknown
- A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
- If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
- There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets
- Hugs grease the wheels of the world. ~Author Unknown
- Hug someone your appreciation. ~Violet Gartenlicht
- A hug is worth a thousand words. ~Author Unknown
- Have you hugged yourself today? ~Anonymous
- A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms. ~Author Unknown
- I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger. ~Author Unknown
- Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable. ~Author Unknown
- Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today,
because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
~Author Unknown - Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~Author Unknown
- A hug is the shortest distance between friends. ~Author Unknown
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