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:
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Oh, call it by some better name,
For friendship sounds too cold.
A sudden thought strikes me,—let us swear an eternal friendship.
Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think."
Those views of life which deify pleasure are less likely to yield it.