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:
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
That, though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.
Set is the sun of my years;
And over a few poor ashes,
I sit in my darkness and tears.
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend,
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend.