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Here's a collection of sayings and verses for the inside or the outside of your cards. They are arranged into categories to make it easy to find one to suit your particular project. Some of them might even inspire you to create the card to go with it!
Sources are shown where known but we can't guarantee that all sayings and verses are copyright free. Please do your own research before use if you are concerned.
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| Miscellaneous |
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| General birthday |
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Your birthday is truly an event worth celebrating! |
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This card is filled with wishes
for a very special day,
One that brings a world of joy
and happiness your way-
It's also filled with loving thoughts
especially meant for you,
For you're the kind of person
happy things should happen to!
~ Happy Birthday ~ |
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Your Birthday is a special day..
One that's just for you
A time for doing everything
You specially like to do..
And on this day that belongs to you,
The wish this greeting brings
Is for the joy you so deserve
And all life's nicest things!
~ Happy Birthday ~ |
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Hope it adds
some special pleasure
To the hours of your day
To know you're being thought of
In the very warmest way...
And when your birthday's over,
Hope that you'll remember, too,
The same warm thoughts as always
Will keep going out to you!
~ Happy Birthday ~ |
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This wish for a Happy Birthday
brings more love than words can say-
Love that holds you close in thought
and close in heart each day!
Happiness on Your Birthday
and Always! |
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Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too, with Birthday greetings all for you. |
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Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year. (Anonymous) |
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| For Mum |
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A Mother understands what a child does not say. |
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There is no friendship that is as strong as a Mother's love & devotion! |
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A Mother holds a special part of all that is treasured in the heart. |
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All the words in the world can't say what a hug from Mum can. |
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Magnificent
Understanding
Marvelous |
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A mother holds her child(ren)'s hands a little while and their hearts forever. |
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A mother is all the wonderful things you never outgrow your need for. |
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A mother's love is the heart of the home. |
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| For Dad |
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No matter how tall I grow, I will always look up to my Dad. |
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. |
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There's a special bathroom in heaven for the father of girls. |
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Hell hath no fury like a Dad whose tools are missing. |
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If it ain't broke, he'll break it. |
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A father is a guiding light whose love shows us the way. |
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I'm just as lucky as I can be for the world's best Dad belongs to me. |
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My fingers may be small...but I can still wrap my Daddy around them! |
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The greatest gift I ever had came from God. I call him Dad! |
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A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you are. |
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A Dad is someone who teaches you to drive the family car and your life. |
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A Father's love warms the hearts of his children forever. |
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A Father is someone you can lean on. |
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| Men |
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Grow your own dope... plant a man. |
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Happy Birthday to a high flyer |
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (Benjamin Franklin) |
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If it ain't broke, he'll break it. |
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Hell hath no fury like a man whose tools are missing. |
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Give a man an inch and he'll think he's a ruler. (Anonymous) |
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No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes. (Anonymous) |
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I'm too sexy for my hair, that's why it isn't there. |
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| Women |
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest. (Margaret Mead) |
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Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. (Maryon Pearson) |
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A woman never forgets her age once she decides what it is. |
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Behind every successful woman is a cleaner and a nanny. (Unknown) |
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I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. (Gypsy Rose Lee) |
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Caution! Next mood swing: 6 minutes. (Anonymous) |
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I have PMS and a handgun. Any questions? (Anonymous) |
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Women are meant to be loved, not understood. (Oscar Wilde) |
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Discover wildlife - Have kids. (Anonymous) |
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A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend. |
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You can't scare me...I have children! (Anonymous) |
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Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your children. |
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| Teachers |
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Teachers change the world one child at a time. (Anonymous) |
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Two reasons for being a teacher... July & August. (Anonymous) |
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To teach is to touch a life forever. |
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A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches a heart! |
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A great teacher loves teaching others to love learning. |
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The flowers of all tomorrows are in the seeds of today. |
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Teachers help us to learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. |
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A teacher's memories can never be erased. |
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. (Margaret Fuller) |
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What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches (Karl Menniger) |
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Wisdom begins in wonder. |
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Teaching is a work of heart! |
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There's no one quite like a special teacher... and no teacher quite as special as you. |
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| For Grandparents |
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MGIF. My Grandma (Granddad) Is Fabulous! |
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A Grandma (Granddad) is someone with silver in her (his) hair and gold in her (his) heart! |
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Grandmas (Granddads) are a special part of growing up. |
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Hands down, our Grandma (Granddad) is the best! |
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Grandma (Granddad) is for hugging! |
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A Grandma (Granddad) fills the world with love. |
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A Grandma (Granddad) is a special friend. |
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When Mum says no...call Grandma (Granddad) |
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A Grandmothers love is the heart of the home. |
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Grandma's heart is a patchwork of love! |
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Who needs Santa when you've got Grandma! |
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Who needs Santa when you've got Grandpa! |
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| From Grandparents |
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My grandkids are the jewels of my life! |
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My grandchildren each have a piece of my heart! |
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Grandchildren are loving reminders of what we're really here for! |
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Happiness is have grandchildren to love |
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Grandma's (Grandpa's) Little Heartthrobs! |
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Grandma's Cookies. 5p or 1 hug & 1 kiss |
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Memories are to friendships what colors are to the sunset. (Anonymous) |
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Friends are the flowers in the garden of life. (Anonymous) |
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Friends are the chocolate chips in the great cookie of life. (Anonymous) |
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend. (John Leonard) |
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May your day be fashioned with joy, sprinkled with dreams, and touched by the miracles of love. (Anonymous) |
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth. (George Washington) |
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A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age. |
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A baby has a special way
of adding joy in every single day. |
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A precious new baby
has come from above
to live in your hearts
to fill you with love. |
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A Guardian Angel to Light the way Keep Baby Safe Night and Day |
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Babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of God |
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Babies are such sweet beginnings |
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Babies touch the world with love |
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Flowers bloomed on the day you were born |
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A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend. |
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God so tenderly gave to you...your little baby boy (girl)! |
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When a child is born the Angels sing! |
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When they placed you in my arms you slipped into my heart! |
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10 little fingers
that from the very start
will reach out for tomorrow
yet always hold your heart. |
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10 little tiny fingers
that always want to play
that never stop exploring
the wonder of today. |
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A baby is a miracle sent from heaven above
To touch our lives with wonder
To fill our hearts with love. |
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| Anniversary |
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As we grow older year by year, my husband always mourns; the less and less we get our oats and the more we feel our corns. (adapted, unknown) |
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Bigamy : one husband too many. Monogamy : same thing. |
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Happiness is being married to your best friend. |
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| Love |
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I'll love you till the cows come home. |
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If love were a movie, you'd be a box office hit! |
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It's a rainy day when you're not around. |
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Let love be your greatest aim. |
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey. |
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. |
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Love makes everything lovely. |
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Love teaches even asses to dance. |
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Love your enemies. It really pisses them off! |
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Love: two minds without a single thought. |
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Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life. |
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Love lives in happy hearts. |
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One who walks a road with love will never walk the road alone. (C.T. Davis) |
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For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. (Judy Garland)
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Our love has no limit, our friendship no end. |
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The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. (Pascal) |
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To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) |
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Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. |
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Love is something eternal...the aspect may change but not the essence. (Vincent van Gogh) |
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When I saw you, I fell in love and you smiled because you knew. |
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Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. (Shakespeare) |
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A kiss is the shortest distance between two. (Henny Youngman) |
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A kiss. A thing of use to no one, but prized by two. (Robert Zwickey) |
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How delicious is the winning of a kiss at Love's beginning. (Thomas Campbell) |
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A loving heart brings joy in all seasons |
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey. (Victor Hugo) |
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I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old...
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) |
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The heart that loves is always young. |
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. (George Sands) |
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To love and to be loved is the greatest joy on earth. |
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"I love Thee" 'tis all that I can say: It is my vision in the night, my dreaming in the day. (Thomas Hood) |
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. (Karen Sunde) |
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True love doesn't have a happy ending; true love doesn't have an ending. |
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Where there is great love, there are always miracles. (Willa Sibert Cather) |
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If I know what love is, it is because of you. (Herman Hesse) |
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. |
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Love is like a butterfly; it goes where it pleases and pleases where it goes. |
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Love is patient; love is kind; love never ends. (adapted, Corinthians 1:13) |
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Love is the key that opens the heart. |
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Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity. |
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To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. |
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Some people come into our lives, leave footprints in our hearts and we are never ever the same. |
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How beautiful life can be when touched by Love. |
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| Engagement (also see Love) |
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This very special message is coming to convey how much the two of you are wished a very happy day. |
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Congratulations, it couldn't happen to a nicer couple. |
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You're going to take the plunge. Hope you will float together forever. |
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| Marriage (also see Love) |
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If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws. (Unknown) |
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Marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder, lightning, tornados and hail. |
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Marriage; an event which is called "tying the knot" - unfortunately, the knot can be a noose (Lee Daniel Quinn) |
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Happiness is being married to your best friend. |
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Today I marry my best friend. |
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To have and to hold from this day forward. |
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On this day, I thee wed |
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And they lived happily ever after! |
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Love is the thread that binds us. |
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The path to happiness is so narrow that two cannot walk on it unless they become one. |
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And when my lips meet thine, Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. (H. H. Boyesen) |
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| Age |
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Chronologically gifted! |
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Happy birthday, you old bird! |
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Aged like fine wine, complex & fruity |
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Naps & farts, that's all you're really good for these days. |
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Age is like fine wine - it gets better with time! |
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You're a classic, you only get better with age! |
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Grow Old dude, made of achy breaky parts. |
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Getting old is inevitable. Growing up is optional. |
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Caution, middle age meltdown! |
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I don't have hot flushes, I have power surges |
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I'm too sexy for my hair, that's why it isn't there. |
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Age is important only if you're cheese or wine. |
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Better to be an old fart than a young shit-head. |
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Enjoy your birthday, you're not extinct yet! |
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In dog years you're dead. |
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We get old too soon and smart too late. (adapted from Pennsylvania Dutch proverb) |
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Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. |
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Don't take life so seriously, it's not permanent. |
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese (Billie Burke) |
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Wrinkles merely indicate where the smiles have been. (Mark Twain) |
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You lose your mind when you grow older - but you won't miss it very much. (Malcolm Cowley, adapted) |
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Old Age: First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. (Leo Rosenberg) |
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You don't stop dancing because you're old, you get old when you stop dancing. |
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You're so old your blood type has been discontinued |
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! (Doris Day) |
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It is not how old you are, but how you are old. (Marie Dressler) |
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. (Maurice Chevalier) |
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. |
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional (Chili Davis) |
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. (Charles Schulz) |
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. (Bob Hope) |
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. |
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By the time we've made it, we've had it. (Malcolm Forbes, The Capitalist Handbook) |
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. (John Greier) |
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Only the young die good. (Cynic's Calendar) |
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. (Oscar Wilde) |
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. (George Burns) |
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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. (George Burns) |
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He's so old that when he orders a three-minute egg, they ask for the money up front. (Milton Berle) |
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At your age, you shouldn't even buy green bananas. |
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Age and weight not spoken here. |
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Age is a number and mine is unlisted. |
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Many a good tune is played on an old fiddle. |
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Older, wiser, sexier. |
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Young at heart, old in other places. |
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You're not getting older, you're just getting more valuable. |
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. (Jennifer Yane) |
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So many candles... so little cake. |
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Birthdays are good for you: the more you have the longer you live. |
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day. (Emily Dickinson) |
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The older you get, the better you used to be. |
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Age is a number, old is in your head. |
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You're not as old as you used to be. |
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You're not old...you've just been young a very long time! |
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You're not young enough to know everything! |
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. (English Proverb) |
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Tom Stoppard) |
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't. (Carrie Fisher) |
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Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off. |
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Your back goes out more than you do. |
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You feel like the morning after when you haven't been anywhere the night before. |
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It takes twice as long to look half as good. |
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Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your last promotion. |
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The clothes you've put away until they come back in style... have come back in style. |
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You can live without sex but not without glasses. |
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You start video taping daytime game shows. |
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You look for your glasses for half-an-hour, then find they've been on your head all the time. |
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You wake up looking like your driver's license picture |
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You are proud of your lawn mower. |
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Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. |
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Your ears are hairier than your head. |
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It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired. |
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You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. |
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The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants. |
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Your childhood toys are now in a museum. |
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Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. |
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Your drugs of preference are now vitamins. |
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You develop a knack for wearing hats. |
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| Age 18 |
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| Age 21 |
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Twenty one and the key to the door |
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Lots of fun at twenty-one. |
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| Age 30 |
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Pushing 30 is exercise enough. |
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. (Bette Midler) |
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| Age 35 |
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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. (Caryn Leschen) |
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| Age 40 |
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You're not 40 - you're 18 with 22 years experience! |
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You're not 40 - you're 34 plus VAT! |
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40? You should demand a recount! |
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Pushing 40 is exercise enough! |
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Caution, middle age meltdown! |
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Forty is the ultimate "F" word. |
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Lordy, lordy, look who's forty! |
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Love your 40s, because you know what comes next? Your 50s! |
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39.9999999999 and still holding!! |
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After forty it's a matter of maintenance. |
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| Age 50 |
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50 isn't usually this sexy! |
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Pushing 50 is exercise enough. |
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50? You should demand a recount! |
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Caution, middle age meltdown! |
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After fifty everything that doesn't hurt doesn't work! |
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Fifty is the ultimate "F" word. |
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They're not hot flushes, they're power surges! |
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You're not 50, you're 18 with 32 years experience. |
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You're not 50, you're 42 plus VAT. |
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| Age 60 |
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Pushing 60 is exercise enough. |
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You're not an OAP - you're a recycled teenager! |
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You're not 60, you're 18 with 42 years experience. |
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You're not 60, you're 52 plus VAT. |
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60? You should demand a recount! |
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| Age 65 |
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You're not an OAP - you're a recycled teenager! |
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Sixty five and sensational. |
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| Age 70 |
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Pushing 70 is exercise enough. |
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70? You should demand a recount! |
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. (George Burns) |
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| Christmas |
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Lighten up. It's Christmas! |
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Christmas comes but once a year, so straighten up...Santa is near! |
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The fat man is coming! Ho! Ho! Ho! |
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Watch where you step. Watch where you go. You may end up under the mistletoe. |
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Christmas calories don't count! |
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Humbugs Beware! Christmas cheer is contagious! |
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He knows if you've been good or bad. Hope you have a Merry Christmas anyway. |
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Santa Claws never forgets the cat. |
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Santa Paws never forgets the dog. |
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Who needs Santa when you've got Grandma! |
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Who needs Santa when you've got Grandpa! |
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Snowflakes are beautiful, pure and white, and like God's children, no two are alike. |
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Love is the best gift of all! |
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Sugar 'n Spice makes Christmas nice! |
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Remember the reason for the season. |
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A turkey's for Christmas, not for life. |
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Christmas Cheer Recipe -- Combine loads of good wishes, heartfuls of love and armfuls of hugs. Sprinkle with laughter and garnish with mistletoe. Top off with presents. Serves everyone! |
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Cold nose, warm heart! |
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A precious angel from heaven above will be welcomed into God's family with love |
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All creatures great and small The Lord God loves them all |
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May the Lord give His angel charge over you, to guide you in all your ways. (Psalm 91:11) |
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Our little blessing from up above! |
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart. |
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Waking or sleeping, may you be safe within God's keeping. |
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In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:6) |
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| Dieting |
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Dieting is no piece of cake! |
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God must love calories! He made so many of them. |
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Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. |
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Tomorrow's another diet. |
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To eat is human, to over-indulge is divine. |
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Christmas calories don't count! |
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When the diet gets tough, the tough get chocolate. |
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Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy. |
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Lord, if you won't make me skinny, please make all my friends fat! |
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If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people (Jim Eason) |
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Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening (Pardo) |
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't. (Carrie Fisher) |
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| Coffee sayings (substitute 'tea' where appropriate) |
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Hell hath no fury like a woman without coffee |
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Instant human. Just add coffee. |
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With enough coffee, anything is possible. |
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Wake up and smell the coffee. |
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Give me coffee and no-one gets hurt |
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You are the cream in my coffee. |
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Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee (Stephanie Piro) |
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Some things in life are better rich. . . coffee, chocolate, men. |
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I drink coffee for your protection. |
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Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no weekday:
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me.
Thou preparest a cafetiere before me in the presence of my workmates:
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the House of Starbuck forever. |
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We've shared a coffee and a chat
As friends so often do,
So when you brew this single cup
Imagine I'm there with you!
(Give with single serving coffee packet.)
(Substitute "some tea" for "a coffee" & give with tea bag.) |
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| Chocolate |
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Instant human. Just add chocolate. |
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Give me chocolate and no-one gets hurt. |
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Diet fact: milk chocolate is a dairy product. |
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Hell hath no fury like a woman without chocolate. |
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The greatest gift of all - Chocolate. |
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Diet fact: chocolate is an essential nutrient. |
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God sends no stress that prayer and chocolate cannot handle! |
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When the diet gets tough, the tough get chocolate. |
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All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! |
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Some things in life are better rich. . . coffee, chocolate, men. |
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. |
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Old bridge players never die - they just trump their aces |
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Old lawyers never die - they just lose their appeal. |
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Old sailors never die - they just get a little dinghy. |
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Old hairdressers never die - they just become a cropper. |
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Old golfers never die - they just lose their drive. |
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Old footballers (golfers, tennis players etc) never die - they just lose their balls. |
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Happy Birthday to a high flyer. |
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Work is for people who don't know how to fish. (Anonymous) |
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Old grocers never die - they just go past their sell-by date. |
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Old sailors (swimmers) never die - they just get out of their depth. |
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Golf is a good walk spoiled. (Mark Twain) |
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| Gardening |
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Weeds for Sale - Pick Your Own. |
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth. (George Washington) |
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend. (John Leonard) |
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Old gardeners never die - they just go to seed. |
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You know you're getting old when… you're proud of your lawnmower. |
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You know you're getting old when… you talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. |
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The flowers of all tomorrows are in the seeds of today. |
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Tall oaks from little acorns grow (Chaucer, public domain) |
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Friends are the flowers in the garden of life. (Anonymous) |
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| Animals (excuses to use an animal on a card) |
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Happy birthday, you old bird. |
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I'll love you 'til the cows come home. |
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Hippo Birdy (Happy Birthday) |
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Happy Birthday two ewes. |
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Enjoy your birthday, you're not extinct yet! |
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In dog years you're dead. |
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Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life. |
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Santa Claws never forgets the cat. |
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Santa Paws never forgets the dog. |
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Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy. |
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Love teaches even asses to dance. |
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The E-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. |
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A user and his leisure time are soon parted. |
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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You can't teach a new mouse old clicks. |
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Too many clicks spoil the browse. |
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The geek shall inherit the earth. |
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Fax is stranger than fiction. |
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What boots up must come down. |
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| Shopping |
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Budget: a method for going broke methodically. |
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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop. (Anonymous) |
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VENI, VEDI, VISA. I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. |
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A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for. |
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| Housework |
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Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the path before it stops snowing. (Phyllis Diller) |
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. (Anonymous) |
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You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again. (Joan Rivers) |
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I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. (Zsa Zsa Gabore) |
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I Hate Four Letter Words... Like Cook, Bake, Dust, and Wash. (Anonymous) |
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No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes. (Anonymous) |
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Laundry room: drop your drawers here. (Anonymous) |
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I cleaned house yesterday. Sorry you missed it. (Anonymous) |
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Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? (Phyllis Diller) |
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| New home |
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Bless this happy home. |
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This is a house where love dwells. |
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Love + Parents + Children + A Roof = A Happy Home |
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Loving hearts make a happy home. |
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Peace be to this house and to all who dwell in it. Peace be to them that enter and to them that depart. |
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Loving make a House a Home. |
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Enter with a happy heart. |
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A home is built of peace and love … and not of wood and stone,
A place where happiness lives and memories are sewn. |
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A house is made of brick and stone
A home is made of love alone! |
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Home and heart will never depart. |
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Home is a place in the heart. |
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Home is a starting place of love and dreams. |
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It's the heart that makes the home. |
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Home is where the heart is. |
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| Graduation |
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The Tassel is Worth the Hassle! |
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May today hold the promise of many bright tomorrows! |
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All the dreams I prayed you'd be are all the things you are.
You were once my little girl and now my shining star! |
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All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. |
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The future lies before you like a field of driven snow.
Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. |
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| Philosophical |
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Strive to be first... first to nod, first to smile, first to speak and first to forgive. |
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Don't count days, make days count. |
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Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece. |
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Reach for what exceeds your grasp. |
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean) |
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Dream on, Dream on, until your dreams come true. |
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
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Whatever is worth doing at all...is worth doing well! |
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. (Oscar Wilde) |
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Those who follow their dream, follow their life's meaning. |
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You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. |
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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. |
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Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
Everyday is another chance
to make your dreams come true. |
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Nothing happens unless first a dream (Carl Sanburg) |
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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
(Swedish Proverb) |
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