Birthday Wisdom 2K7

I turn 31 at about midday today, Monday April 2. This means I can no longer deny to myself that I am now in my late 20s. Well, perhaps my mid-20s.
If you are reading this, whether you actually know me personally or not, I request of you the traditional From the Morgue birthday gift – a quotation in the comments. Comment on this post with a quote from anywhere, about anything. It can be funny or wise or silly or sombre or nonsensical. Quote your bus ticket; quote the bible. Give me some words sourced in the world.
The birthday wisdom posts get more google traffic than any other part of this site. So think of future generations of googlers who will come here seeking enlightenment, and give them something to read. And for me too. Because it’s my birthday.
Birthday Wisdom 2004
Birthday Wisdom 2005
Birthday Wisdom 2006

57 thoughts on “Birthday Wisdom 2K7”

  1. Happy belated birthday bro! Hope you had a good one. s x
    A quote from the tag attached to the headboard –
    “Filling material(s) and covering fabric(s) meet the requirements for resistance to cigarettes and match ignition in the 1988 safety regulations”
    make of that what you will …

  3. Two quotes from “The Men Who Stare At Goats” by Jon Ronson:
    1. ‘This is a true story.’
    2. ‘The interrogators were getting more and more cross with Jamal’s apparent steely refusal to crack. Also, Jamal used his time inside the Brown Block to do stretching exercises, keeping himself sane. Jamal’s exercise regime made the interrogators more angry, but instead of beating him, or threatening him, they did something very odd.
    ‘A military intelligence officer brought a ghetto blaster into his room. He put it on the floor in the corner. He said, “Here’s a great girl band doing Fleetwood Mac songs.”‘
    This is part of a longer extract here: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-5-2004-61241.asp

  4. “Nothing comes from nothing”
    – Been said by so many people that I have no idea who said it originally.
    The nothing we gave you just as a random present, not for your brithday or anythign, because it wasn’t that, came from us. So that was Nothing coming from Mangels.
    Don’t waste it. Nothing is hard to come by too.

  5. “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”
    –God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
    R.I.P. Kurt!

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