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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.

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Friendship is universal. My friendships have saved my life. My friends are the family I have chosen for myself.

Nkuli Sibeko

For me, chemistry is like organic friendship. You cannot fake it; it’s either there or it is not

Lemogang Tsipa

to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Whether it's 'cause you move away or because your lives are just sort of diverging, you have to keep choosing to be a part of this friendship.

Angela Flournoy

Friendships end. Let go. Stay open.

Titilope Sonuga

Ah, what heights of contempt I was capable of in those days! Now, in old age, I have largely lost that faculty, and I miss it, for it was passion of a sort.

John Banville The Untouchable (1997)

And whenever I saw Luis, Graça's husband, I dealt with him with a friendship that was quite genuine, since it was offered out of gratitude for Graça's love.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thrilled to see Kaizer Chiefs here in Türkiye, a country with which South Africa has a long history of friendship and cooperation

Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba

We want to create this opportunity for women from different parts of our continent to talk to each other so they develop friendships

Fatima Chohan

My wife is the only person I’m answerable to. If she had complained about my close friendship with Allwell, I would have stepped back from the friendship.

Rotimi Salami

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you...the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

Rosa Montero Interview with rain taxi (2017)

So what is it about Trump and Russia, and could it have any connection with Trump's close friendship with the deceased pedaphile, Jeffrey Epstein?

Sheldon Whitehouse There is a Cover-Up Afoot (2025)

Opposition is true Friendship.

William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

I’ve been with my husband for the last 28 years, so celebrating those years of friendship and marriage is a big milestone that I do not take for granted.

Catherine Masitsa

Madness. Old age is a massacre. No place for sissies. No place for love songs. No place for dreaming. No place for dreaming erotic dreams

Sarah Ladipo Manyika Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

Don’t Mistake Old Age for Longevity, Be Careful of What You Do in Your Youth

Kanayo O. Kanayo

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Aristotle Disputed

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

William Ellery Channing Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.

Hans Hofmann Misattributed

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet Disputed

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