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:
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity to make or find.
True happiness ne'er entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen.
And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
One thing alone not even God can do,
To make undone whatever hath been done.
Now that I've met you,
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again?
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.