Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Sathya Baba

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.

Bill Cosby

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Carrie Mae Weems

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.

Robin Oakley

Jean-Marie Le Pen was like a man who just had six birthdays in one day.

Keith Bowman

The... acquisition of the Birthdays chain of stores is compounding what are without doubt the most challenging trading conditions the group has seen in years.

Gloria Davis

(That weekend) is my birthday weekend. One of my staff reminded me this morning. I've just been so focused on Decatur and Dodge City, I forgot about it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Carrie Snow

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Carol Burnett

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Edsger Dijkstra

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Adelle Davis

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Danica McKellar

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.

Meryl Streep

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.