A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
Birthday Quotes
Birthday quotes here lean towards reflection rather than celebration. The page is built from the pages on age, time, friendship and happiness, and Shakespeare has the most entries, then Byron, Edward Young and Longfellow.
That is useful if you want something thoughtful for a milestone birthday and less so for a card with balloons on it. The funny ones are on the Funny page. A warning on the friendship quotes: “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” is not from Sun Tzu, and “Time flies like an arrow” was not said by Groucho Marx. Both are flagged here.
Most quoted on birthday:
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.