Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation.
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:
Let us enjoy pleasure while we can; pleasure is never long enough.
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but none in foul.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past.
You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind.
Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!