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:
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!