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:
We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Time,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
People don't grow up — they just begin to overestimate their own importance.