Birthday Quotes - Page 26
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
"De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.
"A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.
It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! “Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!
Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.214
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House
"Mark Twain's Letters".
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Gone with theWind pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936) See Benjamin Franklin 41; Proverbs 63
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
1954 Company Manners,'The Spirit of The Age'.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”
Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii