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:
Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.
Happiness is a reward that comes to those that have not looked for it.
The one delusion you never had in your life was the one about the permanence of happiness.
Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.
The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu witness it in joy.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.