Birthday Wishes Wording
Birthday Wishes Wording
How time flies…
It's your birthday yet again
Your birthdays worry me
I've noticed that every time you have one
I get older
Jon Bratton 2012
L of P
How to help the recipient feel special because the card / page was tailor made for them. To apply this special personal touch to the poem or verse?This section is to help those who need it to write original verses and/or to personalise general or traditional poems or verses.
Rhyming Scheme in Poetry Verse Writing
There are many different rhyming schemes and forms and some even have their own names, like sonnet, limerick and clerihew but let's leave all the clever stuff to skilled rhymesters, who do not need to be reading this.
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It has been said that free verse (non rhyming) favors the serious while rhymes are suited to humor or light material.
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The rhyming scheme I use for card verses
(and would recommend even to clever clogs') is
A any word
B rhyming word
C any word
B rhyming word
because it gives you the freedom to put all the
hard-to-rhyme bits in the first and third lines
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Let's start with a Wedding Day (Engagement) verse, chosen at random:
May this day of your Wedding (or Engagement)
Be filled with love and laughter
And may all your days ahead
Be happy ever after
The simplest way to personalise it, is merely to add the recipients' names in the first line :-
Maureen and Bill, may your wedding day
Be filled with love and laughter
And may all your days ahead
Be happy ever after
Or you could 'steal' the rhyming words of "laughter"
and "after" but, otherwise, completely rewrite the verse
in your own style, for example
Once upon a time, (you two met) (you met your Prince / Shining Knight)
And shared much love and laughter
May your marriage be a fairy tale
Happy Ever After
(The "Happy Ever After" ending inspired the introduction "Once upon a time" and then to the fairy tale idea.) With a little amendment this verse can also be an Anniversary verse :-
Once upon a time, you met
And shared much love and laughter
You're (five) years into your fairy tale
Living happy ever after
Or an engagement verse by changing the third line to:-
May your engagement continue the fairy tale
The fairy tale theme can also be used on the card front
You could also use the rhyming words in a completely
different verse category, in this case, a work colleague
get well card ;-
We're sorry you're feeling poorly, Bill
The (factory's) empty of your laughter
So get yerself well cos we miss you mate
You're a much sought-after grafter
or a Christmas card :-
May your Christmas be very merry
Full of fun and laughter
And may your New Year be the happiest
And stay that way thereafter
Now I'm not saying that 'laughter' and 'after' are classic rhymes...there are only 5 words that rhyme (or 6 if you include BAFTA) but it shows what can be done with even this restrictive sound
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Benjamin Franklin said
At 20 years of age the will reigns;
at 30 the wit;
at 40 the judgement.
At your age is anything still reigning?
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Celebrate today
You deserve
The best ever birthday
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Let today
Your Birthday
Be a happy day,
And may tomorrow
bring new promise
Of great days ahead
Happy Birthday
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Let everything be happy
And everything be right
On your birthday
From morning till night
And beyond into a magnificent future
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift said that
Happy Birthday O Wise One
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From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats said that
Happy Birthday, you winker
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The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
Johnny Carson said that
Well, you certainly can't accuse me of sending you the worst gift
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It’s nice is it not?
To share special moments
with a friend
Celebrating (his) (her) birthday
Have a great one
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Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
Plato said that
Happy Birthday, O Calm One
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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift said that
That's marvelous! I didn't even know he knew you
Happy Birthday
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May your birthday be wonderful
May the same thing be true
For the whole ensuing year ahead
Let it be magnificent for yours and you
Happy Birthday
What is a friend.
It's one soul inhabiting two bodies.
(Diogenes Laertius)
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend
that you don't really do with your family.
(Bette Midler)
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond
between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
(Agnes Smedley)
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason
for being happy except they are so.
(W.R.Inge)
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
~Arnold H. Glasgow
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The friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
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A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe
Friend Birthday Quotes
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault
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'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin
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The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend Birthday Quotes
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
Friend Birthday Quotes
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
Love is like the wild-rose briar;Friendship is like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?~Emily Brontë
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln