"I am not showing up for work, but they are not paying me. The friendship goes on..."
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:
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.
"The moment created a friendship, an emotional moment, and a significant message to the world.”
Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.