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 shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
Boys who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
There is an old poor man
Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.