funny birthday poems for best friends

Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ~James Norman Hall



To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ~Daniel 5:27



Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont



No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. ~E.W. Howe



Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark



You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner



Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ~Wayne W. Dyer



Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~Oscar Wilde



Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forester



The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service. ~Albert Einstein



My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~Destiny Vaestus



There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton



The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables



Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947



Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937



Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823



Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying