That vast, beneficent Eternity
Where all things lovely pass to when they die.
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:
Ah, child. What are we without friends? Just severed heads rolling across the sands.
I am not of that feather to shake off
My friend when he must need me.
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.
Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
Now Mercy says, speaking from her silence, stand in the sun. Breath the deep. Feel what can be!