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 plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
The first symptom is that hair grows on your ears. It's very disconcerting.
Birthdays weigh heavily on one's self-esteem. Early in the morning especially.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.