310 Happy Birthday Quotes & Wishes For a Best Friend

If someone you care about is having their special day, these are some of the best happy birthday quotes for your best friend that will show them how much they mean to you.

These happy birthday wishes and messages can easily be sent via text to keep the friendship connection active!

What better way to show your best friend on their big day what an amazing gift they are to you than with words to make them feel equally loved and appreciated!

A best friend is someone you share a truly special and unique bond.

Someone who cares for you accepts you for who you are, motivates you, stands with you even when everyone else is walking away, and much more.

If it’s your best friend’s birthday, you’ll want to find the perfect words to wish them a happy birthday.

What is the best message for a birthday?

That said, finding just the right words for someone who means so much to you can be a challenge.

So to help you out, we prepared this collection of inspirational happy birthday quotes to share with your best friend on their big day. We also have an amazing collection of friendship quotes for any day of the year.

We hope that they’ll help you and your friend have the best birthday celebration. Always be thankful for your friends; this list of gratitude quotes and smile quotes will help you with that.

Below is our collection of inspirational and special happy birthday quotes, happy birthday wishes, and happy birthday sayings, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Don’t forget to read our list of funny birthday quotes that will make you smile.

Happy Birthday Quotes and wishes

You may not be the only person to wish your friend well on their birthday, but you can do it the best!

• “Birthdays come but once a year, celebrate and be of good cheer.” – Robert Rivers
• “The way I see it, you should live everyday like it’s your birthday.” – Paris Hilton
• “The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.” – Robert Orbe
• “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
• “True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” — Nicole Richie
• “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” — John Lennon
• “A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved.”― Todd Stocker
• “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• “I hope you celebrate your birthday every year no matter your age, for your life truly is a gift.” – Anthea Gillian Tripp
• “Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” – Jean Paul Richter

Birthday greetings to celebrate good times

A thoughtful birthday gift usually accompanies a wonderful birthday!

If you didn’t grab your friend a birthday gift, you can still make their day special with these birthday messages.

• “Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.” – Aretha Franklin
• “Just remember, once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.” – Charles Schulz
• “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” – Sammy Hagar
• “A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year.” – Byron Pulsifer
• “A birth date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” – Amit Kalantri
• “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” – George Meredith
• “To me a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives.” – Meena Bajaj
• “You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” – Bob Hope
• “All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” – George Harrison
• “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball

Let the birthday fun begin with these quotes

What is more fun than a birthday party?

If you aren’t attending their party, send a birthday card at least!

• “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson
• “Birthdays come around every year, but friends like you only come once in a lifetime. I’m so glad you came into my life. Best wishes on your special day.”
• “I am grateful for your true friendship. Hope your birthday is amazing as you are my best friend!”
• “I promise that the more birthday candles you blow, the more I will be here for you to celebrate every special event in your life. Happy birthday!”
• “I hope your birthday is as sweet as the cake. And the year to follow is filled with as much joy as you bring your friends!”
• “Happy birthday my dear friend, may the bright colors paint your life and you be happy forever. Stay blessed.”
• “Another year, another challenge my friend. But, you need to always remember to keep smiling and have a positive outlook on life, and everything is going to be fine. Happy Birthday!”
• “To the best friend I have ever known, here’s wishing you a joy-filled birthday with memories for a lifetime, or just the day.”
• “When nothing goes right, I go to you. You’re my go-to person at every hour. Happy birthday.”
• “For many people, the word friend is just a sequence of letters. For me, it is a source of happiness and strength because of you. Happy Birthday, buddy!”

Make the birthday girl feel loved

These simple birthday wishes will mean a lot to the very special person in your life!

Think of ways to have more birthday fun, like a spa day or escape room.

• “Here is my birthday message for you: I am proud to be your best friend. May you have a happy and healthy belated birthday!”
• “Best wishes on your birthday! You deserve all the wonderful things in this world because you are the best person I know. I love you! Happy birthday!”
• “Every day you sparkle but today you rule! Have a fantastic birthday!”
• “If your birthday is half as amazing as you are, it’s going to be epic. Happy birthday to the best friend a person could ask for!”
• “Wishing my friend a beautiful day; hopes and dreams I’m sending your way. May all be good and all come true on this very special day! Happy birthday”
• “Having you as my friend is a privilege to me. Happy birthday. You are a precious gift.”
• “Never have I had such a friend. Happy birthday to you, and best wishes!”
• “The world is a bit brighter because of you. Happy Birthday, girl!”
• “We’ve shared so much, and I hope you know how much I appreciate you. I am grateful for this day and for all you do. Happy birthday!”
• “May this day bring you a lot of smiles, happiness, and birthday blessings. Wishing you a great and grand birthday!”
• “I have nothing else to say to you today but happy birthday!”

Brilliant birthday wishes for a great friend

Be the only person who writes them an inspiring message in their birthday card.

These birthday blessings will remind the wonderful person in your life to enjoy their day.

• “Congrats on another trip around the sun! I hope you eat cake, make memories, and have fun.”
• “A special friend like you deserves all the wonderful blessings today and every day! Happy birthday! May all your birthday wishes come true.”
• “Wishing my friend a beautiful day. Hopes and dreams I’m sending your way. May all be good and your birthday wishes come true today.”
• “Great friends are like presents. You are always happy to see them. Happy birthday to the best present that life has given me.”
• “On your Birthday, I wish you to have the courage to live at least one more dream, fulfill one more wish and make one more person’s life beautiful.”
• “I hope your birthday is as special as you are, friend.”
• “Good friends are worth holding onto. Thank you for holding my hand each day. Happy birthday, best friend!”
• “It is hard to believe so many years have already passed. I am glad we’ve been friends for so long. Happy Birthday to the best!”
• “Birthdays are a special occasion celebrating your entry into this wonderful world. Enjoy your special day and rejoice in the gift of life, family, and friends. Enjoy your birthday party!”
• “You are so loved today and every day. Happy Birthday!”

Birthday sayings and wishes for a wonderful person

Some of these simple birthday wishes might be used to wish someone a happy belated birthday.

Trust us; you are not the only person this happens to!

• “I hope this birthday was filled with lots of happy hours and you have many more very happy birthdays to come. Happy belated birthday.”
• “Let’s light the candles and celebrate this special day of your life. Happy birthday.”
• “On your birthday may your spirit be enriched in light, love, and hope for a prosperous year ahead.”
• “Wishing my friend a very happy birthday and you don’t need to speak it out loud that I’m your best friend too. Love you dear.”
• “On your special day, I wish you good luck. I hope this wonderful day will fill up your heart with joy and blessings.”
• “Soon, you’re going to start a new year of your life, and I hope this coming year will bring every success you deserve. Happy birthday.”
• “Another birthday means your life journey is incomplete, may your path be paved with success and guided by love. Best wishes, my friend.”
• “Thinking of you on your birthday and wishing you all the best! I hope it is as fantastic as you are!”
• “I hope that your birthday was as much fun as you are, but that sets a very high standard.”
• “They say you lose your memory as you grow older. I say forget about the past and live life to the fullest today. Be sure to eat cake. Happy birthday.”

We hope you have an amazing birthday

Put these in a birthday card or the perfect birthday text!

• “A birthday is like a new year, and my wish for you is a great year full of happiness and sunshine!” – Catherine Pulsifer
• “May beauty and happiness surround you not only on your special day but always. My best birthday wishes!”
• “Let your all your dreams be on fire and light your birthday candles with that. Have a gorgeous birthday.”
• “If I could gift you anything, I would gift you the ability to see yourself through the eyes of others. Happy birthday, darling.”
• “May your birthday be full of happy hours and special moments to remember for a long time!”
• “Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!” – Nicky Gumbel
• “May the dream that means most to you, start coming true this year. Happy birthday!”
• “My warmest wishes and my deepest love on your birthday and forever! Happy birthday, Mom!”
• “Today you are another year older, and we know how fast time flys as we get older, therefore, live each day and be happy!” – Kate Summers
• “Wishing you the greatest birthday ever, full of love and joy from the moment you open your eyes in the morning until you sleep for the night.”
• “Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.” – Debasish Mridha

Happy birthday wishes to make them laugh

These funny birthday wishes are perfect for the birthday guy!

• “Happy birthday to one of my dearest friends who has always been by my side! Your friendship keeps me strong and moving up in life!”
• “You’ve always been great at sharing and caring. On this birthday, may you be blessed tenfold with the love that you have given unselfishly to others.”
• “I didn’t know what a true friend was until I met you. You truly have saved me in every way a person can be saved…..Happy birthday!”
• “Thinking of you and wishing you all the best on your special day.”
• “When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.” – Joan Rivers
• “This world is so much better because you’re in it. Happy birthday!”
• “The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana.” – Betty White
• “When the candles on your cake burn down before they are all lit you know you are getting up there.” – Catherine Pulsifer
• “Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Kitty Collins
• “May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.” ― Debasish Mridha

Remind your wonderful friend of a few things on their special day

First, age is just a number, and people age like fine wine… sometimes!

Second, a fantastic birthday is at their fingertips!

• “Happy birthday to a person that’s charming, talented, and witty, and reminds me a lot of myself.”
• “May your birthday mark the beginning of a wonderful period of time in your life!”
• “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” – Plautus
• “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
• “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
• “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Dumbledore
• “A friend is one with whom I share happiness, but a best friend is one with whom I can share grief, too. Happy birthday to my best friend!”
• “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Seuss
• “I can’t wait to celebrate with you tonight — happy birthday, Mom!”

Want to wish someone all the joy on their special birthday?

Whether you want funny birthday wishes or heartfelt happy birthday messages, these birthday messages are perfect.

• “Your birthday is a beautiful occasion all by itself. However, it’s a special day for me to thank God for all that your friendship has meant to me.”
• “Conquer the world one birthday cake, perfect gift, and birthday wish at a time. Happy birthday!”
• “You are a gift to both myself and everyone around you. Thank you for all that you do. Hope you feel a world of love shining down on you today! Happy birthday, Dad!”
• “Hey old friend, or should I say older friend? Happy birthday.”
• “Today is the time of celebration; I hope you have a beautiful day with loads of love and surprises. May your birthday give you the best memories till the next one, may you have success waiting ahead.”
• “Happy Birthday to one friend I couldn’t live without!”
• “Thank you for all the laughs, silliness, and adventures we’ve shared. Couldn’t ask for a better friend. Have the best birthday yet!”
• “From good friends and true, from old friends and new, may good luck go with you and happiness, too!”
• “May every glowing candle on your birthday cake become a birthday wish that will come true. Wishing you a great birthday!”

Best friend birthday quotes for a special someone

Still stumped on what birthday wishes to put in that birthday card?

• “There are so many things about our friendship that I love. Your birthday will be the perfect time to celebrate you today and all that our friendship means to me.”
• “You are about to have another year of pure awesomeness. Happy birthday.”
• “Words can hardly describe the love, joy and happiness you bring to my life. Wishing you all that and more on your special day!”
• “Your birthday outshines the other 364 days. Happy birthday!”
• “We’ve shared so many birthdays together, and each next year just gets better than the last. Cheers to friends forever!”
• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “You might have a few more gray hairs and feel like an old lady, but that is ok! I am so happy to celebrate another birthday with my best friend!”
• “Today, you are not just a year older but have become a little wiser also. Wishing you a very happy birthday.”
• “Hope life is absolutely spoiling you with love and happiness. May this next year be the year your birthday wish comes true!”
• “I hope today will be your best birthday yet. Keep smiling and happy birthday!”

Happy birthday quotes that will brighten their day

• “Happy birthday to my best friend! We are such a great team: I am smart, good-looking, and talented, and you are great at being my friend!”
• “Happy Birthday, brother! Have I ever told you you’re awesome? No? Well, you’re awesome. Seriously awesome. And now you know I think you’re awesome. (Like really awesome!)”
• “I am so thankful and happy that we are best friends. Enjoy your birthday, and happy birthday wishes to my best friend!”
• “Happy Birthday. You’re the kind of friend who makes every day worth celebrating!”
• “You understand me like nobody else. I have a sibling in you, my friend. Happy birthday to my best friend!”
• “Everyone should be lucky enough to have an awesome friend like you. Go all out and celebrate. Happy Birthday!”
• “Thanks for another year of being an awesome friend. Happy birthday, dear friend!”
• “Happy Birthday! You’re the kind of friend who can light up everyone’s day with a smile. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead.”
• “Every step of the way you were there for me. Through thick and thin I’ll always be there for you. Happy birthday wishes!”
• “May your celebration be memorable and may the year ahead be brighter than ever. Happy Birthday!”

Happy birthday wishes to make them smile

Remind your loved one to have a wonderful day using someone else’s birthday wishes!

• “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” – Satchel Paige
• “Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.” – Edward Morykwas
• “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – Robert Frost
• “We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.” – Lauren Hutton
• “A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife and electric skillet for her birthday.” – Erma Bombeck
• “We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
• “My policy on cake is pro having it and pro-eating it.” – Boris Johnson
• “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” – John Glenn

Here’s to hoping we stay forever young

Happy birthday, no matter how old you are!

• “There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” – William Barclay
• “When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” – Cherokee Expression
• “Happy Birthday. May each and every moment of your special day be filled with the same joy and happiness you bring to others.”
• “Happy birthday to my best friend. I hope it is filled with awesomeness!”
• “A birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It’s the time most of us reflect over the past year and what we hope for in the coming year.” – Claudia T. Hudson
• “Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays – – everybody’s got one. Most kids wish they had more. Older people wish they had fewer and find them a bore.” – Sally Huss
• “Today is the time to tell you I have forgotten when you became my family member. Happy birthday, my dearest friend!”
• “Happiest birthday to my best friend. You deserve all the wonderful things that you have right now. You are the purest soul, and you have the biggest heart. I love you.”
• “May the joy that you have spread in the past come back to you on this day. Wishing you a very happy birthday!”

Beautiful happy birthday wishes and quotes for a friend

• “Sending you smiles for every moment of your special day…Have a wonderful time and a very happy birthday!”
• “You are a person who always deserves the best and obviously nothing less. Wish your birthday celebration will be as fantastic as you are. Happy birthday.”
• “Happy birthday to my special friend, I hope you have a wonderful day and year to come!”
• “I got a feeling that you’ll look really good when you get older. So don’t feel bad about how you look now. Happy birthday!”
• “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
• “Happy birthday to you. From good friends and true, from old friends and new, may good luck go with you and happiness too!”
• “No matter what life throws at us, I will always have your back. Happy birthday!”
• “You bring light and love into my life. Happy birthday!”
• “There’s no better day to celebrate with you. Happy birthday, friend.”
• “Happy birthday! You’re not old; you’re vintage!”

Special happy birthday quotes and wishes

• “Thank you for the years of cake and ice cream. Today is your turn! Cheers to another trip around the sun.”
• “Wishing you the best birthday yet!”
• “Cheers to another trip around the sun! Keep shining.”
• “Happy birthday to the best confidante!”
• “Let the cake games begin! Happy birthday!”
• “May your birthday be filled with happiness, blessings, and plenty of cake!”
• “I’m praying for all your birthday wishes to come true today! You deserve it.”
• “Happy birthday to my very special best friend! May God continue to bless your path this year.”
• “I’m so happy that we’re in each other’s lives. Happy birthday!”
• “Wishing you the best birthday of all time!”
• “You are very special and that’s why you need to float with lots of smiles on your lovely face. Happy birthday.”

Amazing Birthday Quotes to Celebrate Friendship

• “That’s the funny thing about birthdays, they’re kind of an annual thing.” — Rapunzel
• “Nature gives you the face you have at 20, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at 50.” — Coco Chanel
• “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” — Dr. Seuss
• “With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come.” — William Shakespeare
• “Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere.” — George Burns
• “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” — George Harrison
• “Live long and prosper.” — Spock
• “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” — Fred Astaire
• “Why, God, Why? We had a deal! Let the others grow old, not me!” — Joey Tribbiani
• “Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Lec

Family members need love on their birthday, too

• “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” — Voltaire
•  “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” — Albert Einstein
• “Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” — Ausonius
• “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!” —  Edward J. Stieglitz
• “Age is a matter of feeling, not of year.” — George William Curtis
• “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
•  “You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.” — John Grier
• “You don’t get older, you get better.” — Shirley Bassey
• “Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional.” — Chili Davis

Happy Birthday Quotes For a Friend to Celebrate Your Love

• “Age is a gift that reveals our true beauty. It allows us to become the teachers we love, to mold young minds, and step into the future with light and laughter.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner
• “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”― Gabriel García Márquez
• “Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.” ― Lynsay Sands
• “It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.” ― Mitch Albom
• “Embrace aging.” ― Mitch Albom
• “But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.” ― David Deida
• “Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.” ― Phyllis Diller
• “Twenty-three is old. It’s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.” ― Jessica Simpson
• “Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• “The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.” ― Doris Day

Happy Birthday Quotes For a Friend to Show the Importance of the Day

• “Everyday is one less day.” ― Tom Ford
• “Here’s to another year and let’s hope it’s above ground.” ― Carol Shields
• “Old is always fifteen years from now.” ― Bill Cosby
• “When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.” ― Linda Gray
• “I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.” ― Terry Pratchett
• “The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.” ― Judith Regan
• “Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.” ― Gayla Reid
• “Getting older is not an intellectually demanding process.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• “Baby, the fifties are everything you’ve been meaning to be.” ― Maya Angelo
• “The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday.” ― Gabino Iglesias

• “The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday.” ― Gabino Iglesias
• “Happy birthday to a friend who lights up every room with their presence. You’re the real shining star.” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “On your special day, I wish you all the happiness in the world. Here’s to another year of unforgettable moments.” ― Walt Disney
• “May your birthday be as legendary as your friendship. Cheers to the amazing memories we’ve made!” ― Amelia Earhart
• “Another year older, wiser, and more fabulous. That’s what true friendship does to you. Happy birthday!” ― Coco Chanel
• “You’re not just a year older, you’re a year better. Keep shining, my friend. Happy birthday!” ― Nelson Mandela
• “Another adventure-filled year awaits you. Embrace it with open arms and a heart full of courage. Happy birthday!” ― Amelia Earhart
• “Happy birthday to a friend who knows how to make every moment extraordinary. May your day be just as remarkable!” ― Amelia Earhart
• “Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you. Happy birthday to the one who makes the world brighter.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Wishing you a day filled with laughter, love, and all the things that make life wonderful. Happy birthday, my dear friend.” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “Another year of adventures, laughter, and beautiful memories. Your friendship is the greatest gift of all. Happy birthday!” ― Coco Chanel
• “May your birthday be the start of a year filled with good luck, good health, and much happiness. Cheers to you!” ― Winston Churchill
• “A friend like you is a rare gem. On your birthday, may your life be as precious as the moments we share.” ― Nelson Mandela
• “Another chapter begins, and you continue to inspire us all. Happy birthday to a friend who never stops being amazing!” ― Walt Disney
• Age is a mere number, but wisdom is timeless. Happy birthday to a friend who gets better with each passing year.” ― Coco Chanel
• “On your special day, may you be surrounded by love, joy, and the warmth of cherished friendships. Happy birthday!” ― Amelia Earhart
• “Birthdays are the milestones of a journey called life. Celebrate each one with enthusiasm and gratitude. Happy birthday!” ― Walt Disney
• “In the story of life, you are the most intriguing character. Wishing you a birthday filled with plot twists and happy endings.” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “Another year has come, and you’re even more extraordinary. Here’s to celebrating your unique and wonderful self. Happy birthday!” ― Coco Chanel
• “Your friendship is a treasure that grows more valuable with time. May your birthday be as priceless as you are to me.” ― Walt Disney
• “Age is just a reminder of the incredible journey you’ve been on. Happy birthday, and may the adventure continue!” ― Amelia Earhart
• “To a friend who fills every day with sunshine and laughter, may your birthday shine even brighter. Cheers to you!” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “Another year older, but your spirit remains forever young. Happy birthday to a friend who embodies the joy of life.” ― Nelson Mandela
• “May your special day be a reflection of the love, laughter, and kindness you bring into the world. Happy birthday!” ― Walt Disney
• “Your friendship is a gift that keeps on giving. On your birthday, I wish you the happiness and warmth you’ve shared with me.” ― Coco Chanel
• “In the story of life, you’re the friend who makes every chapter unforgettable. Here’s to another amazing year!” – Amelia Earhart
• “A birthday is the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip, my friend!” ― Coco Chanel
• “A friend is a rare find, and I’m grateful to have you in my life. May your birthday be as exceptional as you are.” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “You’re not just a year older; you’re a year wiser and more fabulous. Keep shining, my friend. Happy birthday!” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “On your special day, I wish you all the love and happiness that you’ve shared with the world. Happy birthday!” ― Coco Chanel
• “May your birthday be a canvas of colorful memories, painted with moments of love and laughter. Happy birthday!” ― Walt Disney
• “My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” ― Warren Beatty
• “What is an adult? A child blown up by age.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
• “My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I’ve begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I’ve had it good and am crumbling nicely.” ― Lionel Blue
• “I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.” ― Brandon Boyd
• “My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.” ― Chris Brown
• “After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.” ― Helen Gurley Brown
• “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” ― George Burns
• “Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” ― Thomas Carlyle
• “A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.” ― Liz Carpenter
• “I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.” ― Paul Cezanne
• “Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.” ― Lydia M. Child
• “I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It’s what I wanted to do, so we went.” ― Kelly Clarkson
• “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” ― George Clooney
• “Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.” ― Irvin S. Cobb
• “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” ― Joan Collins
• “As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.” ― Frances Conroy
• “Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.” ― Bill Cosby
• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― e. e. Cummings
• I gave a funny speech at my wife’s birthday party, and I’m thinking, ‘Hey, I’ve still got it.'” ― Larry David
• Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.” ― Richard Dawkins
• “When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” ― James M. Barrie
• “Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” ― Phyllis Diller
• “Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” ― Phyllis Diller
• “Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age.” ― Friedrich Durrenmatt
• “I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.” ― Clint Eastwood
• “I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.” ― Rupert Everett
• “We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.” ― Jane Fonda
• Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ― Betty Friedan
• “Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.” ― William Hazlitt
• “Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” ― Ernest Hemingway
• “On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.” ― Eva Herzigova
• “Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.” ― Kin Hubbard
• “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” ― Victor Hugo
• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” ― Aldous Huxley
• “It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.” ― Robert Green Ingersoll
• “The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” ― Aldous Huxley
• “It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.” ― William James
• “I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.” ― Billy Joel
• “We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” ― John F. Kennedy
• “Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.” ― Nicole Kidman
• “Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.” ― Andre Maurois
• “You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.” ― John Mayer
• “It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.” ― Gore Vidal
• “No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.” ― Christopher Walken
• “I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.” ― Betty White
• “It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” ― Virginia Woolf
• “But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.” ― William Wordsworth
• “We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It’s the day I was born. My mother’s birthday, and a lot of my friends’ birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.” ― Beyonce Knowles
• “At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.” ― Aung San Suu Kyi
• “Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.” ― Hedy Lamarr
• “Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.” ― Anne Lamott
• “Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.” ― Christopher Lasch
• “Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.” ― D. H. Lawrence
• “At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.” ― Daniel Day-Lewis
• “I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.” ― Lindsay Lohan
• “Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.” ― John Lydon
• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli
• “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• I must confess, I was born at a very early age.” ― Groucho Marx
• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.” ― Karl Marx
• “I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.” ― William Butler Yeats
• “Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.” ― Jim Davis
• “One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.” ― Walter Scott
• “Time keeps on… slippin’… slippin’… slippin’ into the future.” ― J.R. Ward
• “Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.” ― Mark Twain
• “Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.” ― Marilyn Ferguson
• “You’ll find as you grow older that you weren’t born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.” ― William Dean Howells
• “Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.” ― John M. Lyle
• Embrace your day with the confidence, boldness, understanding and focus on moving forward! – HAPPY BIRTHDAY” ― Carlos Wallace
• Approach every day like it’s your first, respect it as if you’ve invested years, appreciate it like it’s your last. – HAPPY BIRTHDAY” ― Carlos Wallace
• Celebrate, content in the knowledge that God has granted you the BLESSING of another promising year to fulfill your dreams and claim the life you want and so deserve. – Happy Birthday!” ― Carlos Wallace
• “Today you have won a thousand kisses. Happy birthday.” ― Auliq Ice
• Nothing wrong with making your life a priority! You owe it to yourself. – HAPPY BIRTHDAY” ― Carlos Wallace
• “Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart. Take time today to find at least one thing to be grateful for. – HAPPY BIRTHDAY” ― Carlos Wallace
• “Have a memorable name day, you deserve to be happy because you are a wonderful person. Happy birthday.” ― Auliq Ice
• “I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday!” ― Debasish Mridha
• “I may not be physically present to stand by you while you cut your cake, but you’ll be in my thoughts today! Happy Birthday.” ― Aamir Sarfraz
• “Even if you are king of kings, you cannot mourn your death, the only option is to celebrate your birth … Happy Birthday” ― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumars

Which of these happy birthday quotes was your favorite?

True friends are important in life.

Best friends make life more meaningful and are always there for us no matter what.

Although finding the perfect words to say to your best friend on their special day can be hard.

We hope the above happy birthday quotes and sayings have given you something to choose from.

If you missed your friend’s birthday, use these on their next birthday (and keep a look out for the Facebook reminder.)

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