Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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:
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go.
Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.