Birthday Quotes

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. Happy Birth Day!!!!By: Gabriel Byrne


All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

By: George Harrison

Being seventy is not a sin.
By: Golda Meir

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
By: Sammy Hagar

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
By: Steven Wright

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
By: Voltaire

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
By: Doug Coupland

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
By: Satchel Paige

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
By: Kirstie Alley

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
By: Isla Fisher

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
By: Liv Tyler

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
By: Ruth Warrick

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

By: Bernard Shaw

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
By: Jean Paul

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
By: Gabriel Byrne

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
By: E. Joseph Cossman

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
By: Brian Tracy

View life as a continuous learning experience.

By: Denis Waitley

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

By: George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children. 

By: George Bernard Shaw
 
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. 

By: Robert Brault
 
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. 

By: Jerry M. Wright

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. 

By: Mark Twain

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. 

By: Ogden Nash

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
By: Jean Paul

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
By: E. Joseph Cossman

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
By: Brian Tracy

Thirty-five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.

By: Oscar Wilde

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

By: Ogden Nash

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

By: Daniel Francois Esprit Auber

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

By: Anonymous

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

By: Bob Hope

Belief Quotes

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

By:Jeff Miller

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
By:John Charles Polanyi

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
By:Bob Ney

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
By:Charlotte Bronte

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
By:Louis D. Brandeis

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
By:Christian Bale

Belief gets in the way of learning.
By:Jeremy Collier

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
By:Cecil Beaton

Need is not quite belief.
By:Anne Sexton

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
By:Asa Gray

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Wally Amos

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

By:John Burroughs

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all - oneself.

By:Graham Greene

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

By:La Rochefoucauld

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

By:Thomas Paine

It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.

By:Annonymous

Anger Quotes

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

By: Francis Bacon

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
By: Aristotle

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
By: Albert Einstein

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

By: Dr. Joyce Brothers

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

By: Alfred Montapert

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.

By: Elliot Larson

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

By: Golda Meir

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

By: Yoda

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

By: Joan Chittister

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
By: Louis L'Amour

Anger is a short madness.
By: Horace

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
By: Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
By: Mark Twain

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
By: Thomas Fuller

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

By: Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

By: James Fallows

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

By: Lyman Abbott

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

By: James Thurber

Don’t damn up your anger. If you can't let it out in words, let it out in actions aimed at changing for your life for the better.

By: Adam Appleson

Appreciation quotes

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. 

By: William Shakespeare

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. 

By: Annonymous

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. 

By: Cynthia Ozick

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. 

By: Jacques Barzun

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

By: Voltaire

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

By: Albert Schweitzer

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

By: Henry Clay

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

By: Anonymous

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

By: William Arthur

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

By: Cicero

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. 

By: Jacques Barzun

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. 

By: Annonymous

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.  We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. 

By: Thurgood Marshall