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 sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.