On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly press'd its signet sage.
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:
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.
There comes
For ever something between us and what
We deem our happiness.
Liberty and Union (United States), now and forever, one and inseparable.
I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now…