Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
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:
My inheritance, how wide and fair
Time is my estate; to Time I'm heir.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joy.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.