Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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:
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.
What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.
I envy the tireless intimacy of women's friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.
I turned sixty-five this year and I take old age seriously. There's work to be done.
And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.
Old age, for it has seen and suffered much,
Brings aye some wisdom to the council board.