Wittiest Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Well, truth's like the sun. Look right at it and that's your eyes ruined for life. — Ali Smith

He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad. — Valerie Martin

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. — Jimmy Durante

Knowing that it is the earth that we tread, we learn to tread carefully, lest it be rent open. Realizing that it is the heavens that hang above us, we come to fear the echoing thunderbolt. The world demands that we battle with others for the sake of our own reputation, and so we undergo the sufferings bred of illusion. While we live in this world with its daily business, forced to walk the tightrope of profit and loss, true love is an empty thing, and the wealth before our eyes mere dust. The reputation we grasp at, the glory that we seize, is surely like the honey that the cunning bee will seem sweetly to brew only to leave his sting within it as he flies. What we call pleasure in fact contains all suffering, since it arises from attachment. Only thanks to the existence of the poet and the painter are we able to imbibe the essence of this dualistic world, to taste the purity of its very bones and marrow. — Soseki Natsume

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself. — Jerry Only

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock. — Jack McDevitt

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do — Alan Moore

Because sometimes longshots came in. Both for good and for ill. — Stephen King