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:
All the world's a birthday cake,
So take a piece but not too much.
Time went on, relentlessly, and one by one the proud works of man were lost.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
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How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.