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:
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.
In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory.
Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.
May I not so much be lost as would have
No time to look at myself
Ever.