“I am already late, I fear. What time is it?”
“Time? Why the present, of course.”
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:
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream.
Day follows on the murkiest night, and, when the time comes, the latest fruits will ripen.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
I hold this to be the rule of life, "Too much of anything is bad."
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.