There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
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:
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.