The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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:
'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.
* * * all who joy would win
Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin.
There's no need to reminisce about the past; obviously because that shit did not last.
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.