Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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:
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.
It is from Eternity that the representatives of God on earth derive their Authority.
Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.