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:
I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true;
We're only genuine children still in Age's season.
We dread old age, which we are not sure of being able to attain.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys but that our hopes cease.
Ah, friend! to dazzle let the vain design;
To raise the thought and touch the heart be thine.