Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
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:
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
Both love and friendship are inferior to loyalty and honour.
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.
Friendship is the balm and cordial of life, and without it, ’tis a heavy load not worth sustaining.
Verily, the great man finds gold and rubies more easily come by than true friendship.
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.