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:
You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
You are the one who should quit! Because of drink and old age you have taken leave of your senses.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.
Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.