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:
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.
Time softly there
Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods.
Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.
“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom.