While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day.
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:
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Got a lot of haters and a lot of homies; some friends and some phony.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell.
Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God.
Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
All joys, but joys that never can expire.