birthday quotes for friendship

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. ~Vince McKewin, from the movie The Replacements



Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor



Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"



The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971



In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn



To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson



A woman who sells herself to buy bread for her aged mother or her child, stands upon a higher moral plane than the blushing maiden who marries a money bag, in order to gratify her frivolous appetite for parties and travel. Of two men, he is the less deceived, the more logical and rational, who pays his companion of an hour in cash, each time, than he who gets a companion for life by the marriage contract, whose society was purchased as much as in the former case. Every alliance between man and woman in which either one is influenced by the substantial or selfish advantage to be gained by it, is prostitution. ~Max Nordau, Conventional Lies of Our Civilization



Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope



We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ~Terri Guillemets



It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince



True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde



The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne



Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf



I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. ~Martin H. Fischer



I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez



It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern



Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster



Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes



Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ~Proverbs 25:14