Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind.
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:
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
Those who adhere to the past won't be able to cope with the future.
Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history.
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.
Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of.