If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
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:
In friendship false, implacable in hate,
Resolved to ruin, or to rule the state.
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.