150+ Best Birthday Wishes & Quotes

Make every birthday celebration memorable with our collection of the Birthday Wishes & Quotes. From inspiring messages to funny jokes, we’ve got the perfect words to express your love and appreciation for the birthday boy or girl. Whether you’re looking for something sentimental or lighthearted, we’ve got you covered. So why wait? Browse through our collection and choose the perfect birthday wish to make their day truly unforgettable. Let’s raise a glass to another year of happiness and celebrate the amazing people in our lives!

Best Birthday Quotes

Add a special touch to your birthday wishes with the Best Birthday Quotes. From inspiring and thought-provoking quotes by famous authors and leaders to funny and lighthearted messages, we have something for everyone. Whether you’re looking for something sentimental or humorous, our collection of birthday quotes is sure to make your greeting memorable. So why wait? Browse through our extensive collection and choose the perfect quote to add that extra special touch to your birthday wishes. Celebrate the amazing people in your life with a quote that truly speaks to the bond you share.

1. Your age isn’t you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest. — M. Rivers
2. There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay
3. Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift. — Aretha Franklin
4. Each new year of life added to your past, changing the way you viewed every new day, influencing how you reacted to everything from the simplest daily routines to complex events touching you, your family, and the world you lived in. — Paul Snyder
5. Go, go, go, go go, go, go, shawty. It’s your birthday. We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday. – 50 Cent
6. Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. — Satchel Paige
7. Let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette
8. At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. — Benjamin Franklin
9. I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore–like doing the plank for 10 minutes. – Ellen DeGeneres
10. Keep true to the dream of thy youth. – Friedrich Von Schiller
11. Birthdays come but once a year, celebrate and be of good cheer. — Robert Rivers
12. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. — Fred Astaire
13. Youth has no age. — Pablo Picasso
14. Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. — Margaret Fuller
15. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? — Satchel Paige
16. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art. — Garson
17. Celebrate your journey of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita
18. 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
19. I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. — Mary Pickford
20. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde
21. Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. — Audrey Hepburn
22. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed. – Anthony Powell
23. You don’t get older, you get better. — Shirley Bassey
24. You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” Woody Allen
25. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. — The Beatles
26. A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you, is a great year full of happiness and sunshine! – Catherine Pulsifer
27. Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. — Sammy Hagar
28. A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life. — Amit Kalantri
29. 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
30. A child whose birthday is coming up is so excited, they count down the days. But as we get older we seem to lose the excitement. We need to rethink and be happy we have reached another birthday. — Theodore W. Higginsworth
31. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
32. Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday? — Prince
33. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch
34. We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw
35. The way I see it, you should live everyday like it’s your birthday. — Paris Hilton
36. Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. — Larry Lorenzoni
37. At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. — Jim Bishop
38. I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and I realize it’s me. – Dave Allen
39. They say it’s your birthday. We’re gonna have a good time. I’m glad it’s your birthday. Happy birthday to you. – The Beatles
40. You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. – Germaine Greer
41. When the candles on your cake burn down before they are all lit you know you are getting up there. – Catherine Pulsifer
42. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. – Erma Bombeck
43. Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — Pope John XXIII
44. Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal. – Tim Cook
45. Everything I know I learned after I was 30. — Georges Clemenceau
46. Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you. — Bennett Cerf
47. From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye. — William Butler Yeats
48. Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories. — Buddy Valastro
49. Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom
50. The only thing better than singing is more singing. — Ella Fitzgerald
51. For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. — Yotam Ottolenghi
52. You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’ — Jerry Seinfeld
53. We turn not older with years, but newer every day. – Emily Dickinson
54. Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning. — Bob Hope
55. I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I’m one year older, everyone else is too. — Gloria Swanson
56. Another year comes to a close, and another begins. May the coming year be one that will be filled with laughter of friends, love of family, and the life that you dream of. — Catherine Pulsifer
57. No wise man ever wished to be younger. — Jonathan Swift
58. Life seems to fade our memory, so on this birthday I will forget yours if you forget mine! – Kate Summers
59. My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it. – Boris Johnson
60. Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. – Kitty Collins
61. I intend to live forever. So far, so good. — Steven Wright
62. Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. – Janet Evanovich
63. Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wings of time. – Jean Paul Richter
64. We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier. — Ellen DeGeneres
65. Birthdays are a great time to stop and appreciate gravity. Sure, it makes things sag as you get older, but it also keeps your cake from flying all over the room, so you don’t have to chase it. – Greg Tamblyn
66. Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Douglas Coupland
67. May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live. – Irish blessing
68. Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life. — Wilfred Peterson
69. A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. — Abhishek Bachchan
70. If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. – Euripides
71. As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two. — Norman Wisdom
72. There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. — Lewis Carroll
73. From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. – Sophie Tucker
74. One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over. — Marianne Williamson
75. In other words, live vicariously, beautifully, and excitingly, discover, love, dare and act as there is nothing to lose. — Andy Hertz
76. Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. – Marcus Aurelius
77. I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day. — Aimee Bender
78. To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. — Lionel Blue
79. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. – William Shakespeare
80. A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year. —Byron Pulsifer
81. The first hundred years are the hardest. — Wilson Mizner
82. Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. — Booth Tarkington
83. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. — Cora Harvey Armstrong
84. At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. — Orson Welles
85. We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. — Bernard Baruch
86. We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein
87. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – Les Brown
88. Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson
89. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. — George Harrison
90. 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
91. Life is too short to be small. — Benjamin Disraeli
92. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote
93. 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 proverb
94. You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. — John Mason
95. Age is a high price to pay for maturity. — Tom Stoppard
96. Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.” — Robert Staughton Lynd
97. Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. — Brigitte Bardot
98. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. — Golda Meir
99. You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. – Brad Garrett
100. You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. — Richelle E. Goodrich
101. Live long and prosper. — Mr. Spock
102. Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece? – Bobby Kelton
103. I believe that no matter what condition you are in when someone close to your heart remembers your birthday and wishes you a happy birthday, you feel happy. – A. Singla
104. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning
105. Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake. – Edward Morykwas
106. 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
107. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
108. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. — Oprah Winfrey
109. Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Gustav Jung
110. Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it! – Nicky Gumbel
111. Most of us can remember a time when a birthday—especially if it was one’s own—brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. — Robert Staughton Lynd
112. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. — Plautus
113. Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. — Ausonius
114. Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. — Chris Hardwick
115. When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? — Lisa Loeb
116. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Goethe
117. Don’t regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it. – Catherine Pulsifer
118. Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. – Joseph Joubert
119. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
120. I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake. — Mitch Hedberg
121. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana
122. Birthdays are inevitable, beautiful and very particular moments in our lives! Moments that bring precious memories back, celebrate the present times and give hope for the future. — Bsbr Arish
123. I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody. — George Burns
124. May you receive many gifts, and may your day be joyous, and best of all may you be surrounded by family and friends. May all you wish for come true. — Theodore W. Higginsworth
125. Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. — Mary Schmich
126. Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Charles Schulz
127. The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend’s birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people’s birthdays. — Julianna Margulies
128. I wish people would stop talking about my birthday. – George Bernard Shaw
129. Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. — Anna Magnani
130. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. – Groucho Marx
131. If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day. —Jim Croce
132. Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. — John Glenn
133. The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. — H. V. Prochnow
134. Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! — Dr. Seuss
135. You’ve heard of the three ages of man—youth, age, and “you are looking wonderful. — Francis Cardinal Spellman
136. Put candles in a cake, it’s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody’s drunk in the kitchen. – Jim Gaffigan
137. There is still no cure for the common birthday. — John Glenn
138. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. — Madeleine L’Engle
139. The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana. – Betty White
140. Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere. – George Burns
141. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. — Robert Frost
142. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln
143. My life is better with every year of living it. — Rachel Maddow
144. To me a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives. – Meena Bajaj
145. Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
146. 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
147. You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. — Bob Hope
148. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. — Henri Frederic Amiel
149. Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own. — J. P. Sears
150. For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. — Chris Evans

Belated Birthday Wishes

You could be wondering whether to say “belated happy birthday” or “happy belated birthday” when wishing someone a happy birthday. However, most individuals are not very severe about these grammar or usage issues since they view them as fairly unimportant and insignificant.

We wish you a wonderful birthday celebration! Some of these messages may be too late, but maybe they still communicate everything that needs to be said!

• I didn’t really forget your birthday… I just wanted to help you prolong the celebrations! Happy belated birthday!
• I didn’t really forget your special day… I just figured you deserved more than one. Happy Belated Birthday!
• I know you think this card is a few days late. It’s actually worse than that. This is your card from 2015 that I only just got around to sending. Happy Belated Birthday! , fun, at least I didn’t forget that I forgot. Happy belated birthday!
• Happy Birthday! Don’t think of this as a late birthday card. Consider it a very early one for next year. Here’s wishing you a wonderful year ahead!
• Happy Birthday to a warm, kind, understanding, Happy Birthday! (Leave it to me to say the right thing at the wrong time.) I hope you had a good one!
• I’m so sorry I forgot your birthday. Sorry I missed your birthday! But you know me, always fashionably late. Belated happy birthday wishes to you!

Conclusion

In conclusion, wishing someone a Happy Birthday is a special opportunity to show them how much they mean to you. With our collection of the Best Birthday Wishes & Quotes, you’re sure to find the perfect message to express your love, appreciation, and gratitude. Whether you choose a heartfelt sentiment or a funny joke, the most important thing is that you take the time to acknowledge the special day and make it truly unforgettable. So here’s to wishing everyone a birthday that’s as wonderful as they are, filled with happiness, love, and all their favorite things.