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 destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.