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:
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now,
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.
Nought treads so silent as the foot of Time;
Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly;
To every day we live, a day we die.
See Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.
To the true teacher, time's hour-glass should still run gold-dust.