A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
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:
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.
Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
Dread more the blunderer’s friendship than the calumniator’s enmity.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.