This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.
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:
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.
Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.