150 Best Happy Birthday Quotes & Wishes To Celebrate Someone’s Special Day

Birthdays are the best days, wouldn't you agree? From birthday phone calls to cake and presents, nothing makes anyone feel more special than getting a little b-day love and attention. But instead of simply saying, "Happy Birthday!" this year, here are some of the best happy birthday quotes, birthday wishes, and happy birthday messages to make a loved one feel extra special.

These 150 best happy birthday wishes honor the passing of another year, while celebrating all the good times that are still ahead. So whether you're looking for sweet "Happy Birthday" messages or birthday greetings that cherish this special occasion, these 150 happy birthday wishes are just what you need to help your favorite birthday boy or girl celebrate their big day.

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150 Best Birthday Quotes

1. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

2. As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. — Norman Wisdom

3. My life is better with every year of living it. — Rachel Maddow

4. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. — Fred Astaire

5. 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

6. A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you, is a great year full of happiness and sunshine! — Catherine Pulsifer

7. Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake. — Edward Morykwas

8. Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it! – Nicky Gumbel

9. We turn not older with years, but newer every day. – Emily Dickinson

10. You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. — Bob Hope

11. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch

12. 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

13. There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay

14. Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson

15. 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

16. A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life. — Amit Kalantri

17. Your age isn't you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest. — M. Rivers

18. A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year. —Byron Pulsifer

19. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde

20. Everything I know I learned after I was 30. — Georges Clemenceau

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21. 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

22. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

23. The way I see it, you should live every day like it's your birthday. — Paris Hilton

24. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. — Golda Meir

25. Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. — Anna Magnani

26. Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Gustav Jung

27. If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. – Euripides

28. 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

29. Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece? – Bobby Kelton

30. 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

31. Put candles in a cake, it’s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody’s drunk in the kitchen. – Jim Gaffigan

32. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball

33. 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

34. Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Charles Schulz

35. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? — Satchel Paige

36. One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over. — Marianne Williamson

37. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote

38. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. – Groucho Marx

39. Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. — Booth Tarkington

40. Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. — Satchel Paige

41. Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom

42. Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. — Brigitte Bardot

43. There is still no cure for the common birthday. — John Glenn

44. 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

45. The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana. – Betty White

46. Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning. — Bob Hope

47. 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

48. You were born an original. Don't die a copy. — John Mason

49. 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

50. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. — Cora Harvey Armstrong

51. When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? — Lisa Loeb

52. Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf

53. 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

54. The first hundred years are the hardest. — Wilson Mizner

55. You don't get older, you get better. — Shirley Bassey

56. 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

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57. Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere. – George Burns

58. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

59. 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

60. My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it. – Boris Johnson