Writing appropriate birthday messages on a card can be tough business. Spend less time pondering over all the things to say in a birthday card and try using some short and catchy quotes instead.
Quick Fact!
Typically, there are 2 types of greeting cards – seasonal and every day cards. Birthday cards are the best-selling every day cards which amount for over half of the total cards sold.
Birthday cards come in all shapes and sizes; and for people of different age groups. Of course, the cards already have rhyming poems that capture the essence of the occasion. On the other hand, it’s nice to compose a few personal lines for the receiver of the card, isn’t it! So what happens when you’re out of words but wish to send your message across? Simple. All you have to do is read the rest of this article and find applicable quotes while writing in birthday cards.
Funny Birthday Quotes
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. – Anonymous
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. – John P. Grier
Your birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar….Yung No Mo. – Anonymous
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing “Happy Birthday”. – Anonymous
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it. – Golda Meir
I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it. – Eva Gabor
Birthday is a salty word if you’re not a fan of cake and ice cream. – Greg Evans
Religious Birthday Quotes
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created. – James 1:18
By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us. – Becky Laird
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. – Gautama Buddha
However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all. – Ecclesiastes 11:8
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. – Albert Einstein
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten Boom
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. – Ephesians 2:10
Romantic Birthday Quotes
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. – Robert Browning
I asked for light, God gave me the sun. I asked for water, God gave me rain. I asked for happiness, and God gave me you. – Anonymous
Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over. – Anonymous
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; The more I give to thee The more I have, For both are infinite. – William Shakespeare, Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2)
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. – William M. Thackeray
Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. – Alexander Pope
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. – Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
Inspirational Birthday Quotes
It is better to wear out than to rust out. – Bishop Richard Cumberland
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. – Sammy Hagar
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. – Frank Lloyd
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated. – Anonymous
What could be more beautiful that a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. – Brigitte Bardot
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. – Marilyn Ferguson
Pleas’d to look forward, pleas’d to look behind, and count each birthday with a grateful mind. – Alexander Pope
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty, they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum
Choose one or more quotes and write them in the birthday cards you send each year to family and friends. Trust me, they’ll be elated to find personal messages written on their cards by you. Also, now you won’t be wondering or confused on what to say in a birthday card. You’ve got the answers right here!
