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:
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.
Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.
For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.