The Book of Birthday Wishes: Thoughts and Good Cheer from Groucho Marx, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Dr. Seuss and More Than 100 OthersEdward Hoffman Citadel Press, 2001 - Всего страниц: 250 Here's a book that quickly solves that thorny problem common to so many of us: What birthday gift would be perfect for that friend or loved one who has everything? The editor of The Book of Birthday Wishes has searched international sources and found the perfect present: a treasury of heartfelt wishes for a happy birthday and good cheer throughout the rest of the year. In this volume Dr. Edward Hoffman, editor of the popular Book of Fathers' Wisdom, presents a wise and witty collection of pithy statements, advice, encouragement, loving thoughts, memories, and warm wishes from family, friends, and even foes -- all acknowledging a birthday. The selections are drawn from the letters, memoirs, inscriptions, and cards sent by a variety of historically famous men and women, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Sigmund Freud, Harry Truman, George Burns, Isaac Asimov, D. H. Lawrence, Theodore Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, and John F. Kennedy. In their wide-ranging and often inspirational ways, all of the wishes repeated here will help to celebrate birthdays everywhere. |
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Accepting a Marriage Proposal Clara Wieck and her future husband | 3 |
Acquiring Wisdom Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 A E Housman | 9 |
Affirming Love to Ones Husband Abigail Smith Adams and her husband | 16 |
Aiming High Endicott Peabody and his pupil Franklin D Roosevelt | 28 |
Amusing a Child | 30 |
Appraising Ones Career H Rider Haggard 38 Margaret Mead | 39 |
Attaining Contentment Virginia Woolf | 45 |
Buying a Castle for Ones Son George Sitwell and his son Francis Osbert | 51 |
Enjoying a Getaway With Ones Husband Margaret Mitchell and | 96 |
Enjoying Old Age Frank Laubach | 102 |
Expressing Admiration to a Friend Leonard Bernstein and his friend | 109 |
Expressing Love to Ones Fiancé Rosa Ferrucci and her fiancé Gaetano | 124 |
Finding Ones Vocation Madeleine LEngle | 137 |
CONTENTS | 155 |
Praising a Friends Achievements Martin Buber and his friend Hermann | 169 |
Promising Courage to Ones Father Ulysses S Grant and his father | 182 |
Celebrating a Successful Career George Burns and his friend | 57 |
Chastising a Forgetful Friend Gerard Manley Hopkins | 66 |
Childhood Nostalgia Agatha Christie 71 Graham Greene | 72 |
CONTENTS | 77 |
Conveying Sisterly Love Victoria Queen of Great Britain and | 83 |
Encouraging a Daughters SelfRenewal Bronson Alcott and his daughter | 90 |
Revealing Playfulness to a Friend Albert Einstein and his friend Samuel | 192 |
Sharing Humor With Friends John F Kennedy and his friend Marilyn | 206 |
Taking a Getaway With Ones Daughter Erica Jong and her daughter | 219 |
CONTENTS | 221 |
Using Time Wisely Arthur Schlesinger Jr | 236 |
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