birthday poems for friendship

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. ~Lewis Mumford



Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James



Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown



For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney



Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ~G.K. Chesterton



Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956



Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. ~Bruce Calvert



What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps? ~Author Unknown



A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes. ~Author Unknown



I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. ~Will Rogers



The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana



This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. ~Jonas Salk



Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown



Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. ~Albert Camus



Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. ~Owen Laughlin



So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family



A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~Bill Vaughan



If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman



Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948



Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ~Robert S. Lynd