The Book Of Birthday Wishes Thoughts and Good Cheer from Groucho Marx, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Dr. Seuss and More Than 100 Others

by Hoffman, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780806521879
• ISBN10: 0806521872
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-19
• Publisher: Citadel

Summary

Presents a collection of quotations taken from letters, memoirs, inscriptions, and cards by such notables as Sigmund Freud, Harry Truman, Virginia Woolf, and John F. Kennedy.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Accepting a Marriage Proposal
Clara Wieck and her future husband, Robert Schumann	3	(2)
Accepting Time Humorously
Bill Cosby	5	(2)
Acquiring Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson	7	(2)
A. E. Housman	9	(2)
Admitting Contentment to a Friend
Sigmund Freud and his friend Wilhelm Fleiss	11	(2)
Advising a Niece on What Really Matters
Ita Ford and her niece, Jennifer Sullivan	13	(3)
Affirming Love to One's Husband
Abigail Smith Adams and her Husband, John Adams	16	(2)
Jane Welsh Carlyle and her husband, Thomas Carlyle	18	(2)
Affirming Love to One's Wife
Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie	20	(1)
Harry Truman and his wife, Bess	21	(1)
John Middleton Murry and his wife, Katherine Mansfield	22	(2)
Mark Twain and his wife, Livy	24	(1)
E. B. White and his wife, Katharine	25	(3)
Aiming High
Endicott Peabody and his pupil Franklin D. Roosevelt	28	(2)
Amusing a Child
Lewis Carroll and his goddaughter Gertrude Chataway	30	(1)
Groucho Marx and his son, Arthur	31	(1)
Ogden Nash and his daughter Isabel	32	(1)
Dr. Suess	33	(2)
Apologizing for a Forgotten Birthday
Thomas Wolfe and his mother, Julia	35	(3)
Appraising One's Career
H. Rider Haggard	38	(1)
Margaret Mead	39	(4)
Assessing One's Life to a Friend
Eleanor Roosevelt and her friend Lorena Hickock	43	(2)
Attaining Contentment
Virginia Woolf	45	(2)
Boosting a Friend's Self-Esteem
J. M. Barrie and his friend Charles Smith	47	(2)
Boosting a Son's Self-Esteem
J. R. R. Tolkien and his son Michael	49	(2)
Buying a Castle for One's Son
George Sitwell and his son Francis Obsert Sitwell	51	(2)
Buying a Lavish Gift for Oneself
Isaac Asimov	53	(2)
Capitalizing Politically on One's Birthday
Mario Cuomo	55	(2)
Celebrating a Successful Career
George Burns and his friend Ann-Margret	57	(3)
Celebrating One's Father
Leonard Bernstein and his father, Samuel	60	(2)
Celebrating Romantic Love
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her future husband, Robert Browning	62	(1)
Christina Rossetti	63	(3)
Chastising a Forgetful Friend
Gerard Manley Hopkins	66	(3)
Cheering Up a Friend
Rupert Brooke and his friend Hugh Russell-Smith	69	(2)
Childhood Nostalgia
Agatha Christie	71	(1)
Graham Greene	72	(2)
Complaining About Midlife
Dave Barry	74	(3)
Confiding a Spiritual Awakening to a Friend
Kahlil Gibran and his friend Mary Haskell	77	(2)
Conveying Brotherly Love
Lewis Carroll and his sister Mary Dodgson	79	(2)
Conveying Love to One's Daughter-in-Law
Sara Roosevelt and her daughter-in-law, Eleanor Roosevelt	81	(2)
Conveying Sisterly Love
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, and her brother-in-law Wilhelm, King of Prussia	83	(2)
Declaring Gratitude to One's Friends
Martin Buber	85	(2)
Declaring Gratitude to One's Son
Margaret Ogilvy Barrie and her son J. M. Barrie	87	(1)
Describing a Big Bash to a Friend
Walt Whitman and his friend Dr. Richard Bucke	88	(2)
Encouraging a Daughter's Self-Renewal
Bronson Alcott and his daughter Anna Alcott	90	(2)
Encouraging a Daughter's Writing Ability
Abigail Alcott and her daughter Louisa May Alcott	92	(2)
Enhancing a Son's Learning
Kenneth Grahame and his son, Alistair	94	(2)
Enjoying a Getaway With One's Husband
Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh	96	(2)
Enjoying Foreign Travel
Babe Ruth	98	(1)
Paul Tillich	99	(3)
Enjoying Old Age
Frank Laubach	102	(2)
Experiencing Life as a Gift
Thomas Merton	104	(1)
William Butler Yeats	105	(2)
Experiencing Youthful Rebellion
Abraham Maslow	107	(2)
Expressing Admiration to a Friend
Leonard Bernstein and his friend Stephen Sondheim	109	(1)
Arnold Zweig and his friend Sigmund Freud	110	(2)
Expressing Career Satisfaction to a Friend
Philip Larkin and his friend Alan Pringle	112	(1)
John Steinbeck and his friend Elizabath Otis	113	(3)
Expressing Fatherly Admiration
Isaac D'Israeli and his son Benjamin Disraeli	116	(2)
Benjamin Latrobe and his son, John	118	(2)
Expressing Love to a Friend
Rachel Carson and her friend Dorothy Freeman	120	(2)
Mary Haskell and her friend Kahlil Gibran	122	(2)
Expressing Love to One's Fiance
Rosa Ferrucci and her fiance, Gaetano	124	(2)
Expressing Love to One's Grandmother
Prince Wilhelm II of Prussia and his grandmother, Queen Victoria	126	(2)
Expressing Romantic Passion to a Friend
Aline Bernstein and her friend Thomas Wolfe	128	(2)
Margaret Fuller and her friend James Nathan	130	(1)
Gustave Falubert and his friend Louise Colet	131	(2)
Arthur Henry Hallam and his friend Emily Tennyson	133	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his friend ``Maud,''	134	(3)
Finding One's Vocation
Madeleine L'Engle	137	(3)
Getting Past a Tough Birthday
Norman Corwin	140	(2)
Gratitude for Friends
Hans Christian Andersen	142	(3)
Honoring Entertainment Achievement
Bob Hope	145	(3)
Honoring the Life of a Role Model
Jane Addams on George Washington	148	(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Robert Burns	150	(2)
Stephen Wise on Abraham Lincoln	152	(3)
Motivating One's Daughter
Otto Frank and his daughter Anne Frank	155	(2)
Musing to a Friend About Life
Maude Gonne and her friend William Butler Yeats	157	(1)
Philip Larkin and his friend Jim Sutton	158	(2)
Musing Humorously About Birthdays
H. L. Mencken	160	(1)
Calvin Trillin	161	(2)
Offering Avuncular Affection
Ogden Nash and his nephew Theodore	163	(1)
Offering Fatherly Confidence
Harry Truman and his daughter, Margaret	164	(1)
Pondering the Nature of Time
Beatrix Potter	165	(1)
Elie Wiesel	166	(3)
Praising a Friend's Achievements
Martin Buber and his friend Hermann Hesse	169	(1)
Sigmund Freud and his friend Thomas Mann	170	(3)
Praising One's Mother
Louis Brandeis and his mother, Frederika	173	(1)
Thomas Carlyle and his mother, Margaret	174	(1)
T. S. Eliot and his mother, Charlotte	175	(2)
Theodore Roosevelt and his mother, Martha	177	(1)
Richard Wagner and his mother, Johanna	178	(2)
Proclaiming Admiration to a Statesman
Julio S. and his inspiration, John F. Kennedy	180	(2)
Promising Courage to One's Father
Ulysses S. Grant and his father, Jesse Grant	182	(2)
Reflecting on the Day's Events
Dorothy Wordsworth	184	(2)
Relating Confidence to One's Mother
Robert Edwin Peary and his mother, Josephine	186	(2)
Reminiscing About Youthful Achievement
Alec Guinness	188	(2)
Revealing Love to One's Son
Lydia Jackson Emerson and her son Edward	190	(2)
Revealing Playfulness to a Friend
Albert Einstein and his friend Samuel Gronemann	192	(3)
Revealing Sadness to a Friend
Dylan Thomas and his friend Vernon Watkins	195	(2)
The Secret of Reaching a Hundred
Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson)	197	(3)
Seeking One's Roots
Bob Dylan	200	(2)
Sharing Childhood Nostalgia With a Friend
Ben Washam and his friend Chuck Jones	202	(2)
Sharing Exciting News With a Friend
Robert Frost and his friend Louis Untermeyer	204	(2)
Sharing Humor With Friends
John F. Kennedy and his friend Marilyn Monroe	206	(2)
Sharing Joyful News With One's Mother
William Randolph Hearst and his mother, Phoebe	208	(2)
Sharing News About Travel
Rupert Brooke and his friend Cathleen Norris	210	(1)
Lord Byron and his friend John Murray	211	(1)
Ezra Pound and his mother, Isabel	212	(3)
Sharing a Quiet Party With One's Family
Harpo Marx	215	(2)
Sharing Teenage Fun With One's Brother
A. A. Milne and his brother, Kenneth	217	(2)
Taking a Getaway With One's Daughter
Erica Jong and her daughter, Molly	219	(2)
Teaching a Child About Goals
C. S. Lewis and his goddaughter Sarah	221	(2)
Teaching Resourcefulness
Dorotea Chavez and her son Cesar	223	(3)
Teaching Values to One's Children
Dr. Edward Hemingway and his son Ernest	226	(1)
Sam Houston and his son Sam Houston Jr.	227	(1)
Thomas Huxley and his son Leonard	228	(1)
Lincoln Steffens and his son, Peter	229	(1)
William Thackeray and his daughter Anne	230	(2)
William Wilberforce and his son Samuel	232	(1)
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their son Albert Edward	233	(3)
Using Time Wisely
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.	236	(2)
Vowing to Fight for Social Justice
Susan B. Anthony and her mother, Lucy Read Anthony	238	(2)
Vowing to Live Outrageously
Maggie Kuhn	240	(3)
Permissions	243	(1)
References	244