Short Funny 18th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

To live is not breathing it is action. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. — John Ruskin

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm. — Stefan Zweig

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself. — Bruce Springsteen

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. — Henry Ward Beecher

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather. — Bear Grylls

Do unto others' is an unnatural, inhuman behavior. You can understand why so many churches and churchgoers say it but so few achieve it. It goes against something fundamental in our natures. And this, then, is the human tragedy - that the common humanity we share is fundamentally based on the denial of a common shared humanity. — Karen Joy Fowler

You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling. — E.L. James

Did you call me a pig? (Stryder)
I called you a pigheaded boar. (Zenobia)
Isn't that redundant? (Stryder) — Kinley MacGregor

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon

Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements. — Lee Patterson

Life is ultimate. The more skills you possess the more productive, successful and happy you will be. — Kishore Bansal

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. — Catherine Of Aragon

Life is complicated, love isn't. If you need to think about it for one half second, you're not in love. — J.R. Moehringer