Wonderful Birthday Wishes to Share with Your Best Friend

Wonderful Birthday Wishes to Share with Your Best Friend

It's your bestie's big day. You found the perfect present, baked a beautiful cake and even decorated the house for the party. You're all set to get the celebration started except for one thing: even though you've racked your noggin for days, you just can't seem to come up with the right words to mark her latest trip around the sun. After all, your sister from another mister is one of the most important people in your life—you don't want to jot down something boring or bland inside her card or on Instagram.

Well, fret not, because we've come to the rescue with the 100 most thoughtful birthday wishes for your best friend. Ahead, you'll find terrific tidings sure to bring either a tear to her eye or a laugh to her lips. Yep, we've found super sweet bday sentiments and hilarious ones, too. We've also tracked down the cutest emoji messages and even rounded up intriguing birthday quotes from famous folks. With all this heartfelt material to choose from you're sure to find a birthday wish that will connect with your best bud heart and soul.

Sweet Birthday Wishes

women walking together with arms around shoulders
Ba Hoang Duong Ly / EyeEm
  • It's the best day of the year, because it's the day we get to celebrate you!

  • Wishing you a year of health, happiness, peace and prosperity.

  • You’re more than a friend to me, you’re family. Happy Birthday!

  • Happy Birthday to the person I want to be when I grow up. You're an inspiration to us all.

  • I don't know how it's possible, but every year you just keep getting better. Love you bunches!

  • Here's to another year of getting up to no good together! Happy Birthday to my ride or die!

  • May this birthday bring you all the happiness you deserve, which is all the happiness!

  • Happy Birthday to the woman who's the peanut butter to my jelly, the sock to my shoe, the gin to my tonic. I don't know what I'd do without you!

  • Just like you've always been there for me through life's ups and downs, I'll always be there for you. Happy Birthday!

  • Happy Birthday to my utterly and absolutely irreplaceable best friend.

  • Here is your yearly reminder that there is no better bestie than you! Happy birthday, my girl!

  • My wish for you is that every single one of your birthday wishes comes true this year.

  • One of the best parts of life is friendship. Thanks for being my bestie.

  • I hope your special day is even better than last year's and not quite as good as next year's.

  • Happy Birthday to someone who is as lovely inside as she is out.

  • The world got a bit better on this day because my bestie was born!

  • I’m proud to call you my best friend on this and every day. Happy Birthday!

  • May this birthday, and every one after, be as wonderful as you.

  • Wishing you nothing but love and happiness on your birthday, my sweet friend.

  • Happy Birthday to my partner in crime! I can't wait to see what we get up to in the next year.

  • I'm so proud of the life you've built, and so happy to be a part of it. Happy Birthday!

  • You shine as bright as the stars in the sky. Happy Birthday, BFF!

  • You're such a blessing to everyone, we should celebrate you with cake and presents every day!

  • Everybody always talks about how they have the world's greatest friend, but for me, it's really true. Cheers to your big day!

  • Happy Birthday to my very favorite human.

Funny Birthday Wishes

women singing happy birthday with cake
Steve Prezant
  • Older? Yes. Wiser? Not so much. Happy Birthday, bestie!

  • Don't let old age get you down. It's difficult to get back up. Happy Birthday!

  • Happy Birthday to a woman who's old enough to know better and young enough to not care.

  • The candles on the cake aren't the only thing getting lit tonight! Happy Birthday!

  • The best part of being older is that you did most your stupid stuff before the internet. Happy birthday!

  • Welcome to middle age, when "happy hour" is naptime. Happy Birthday!

  • Happy birthday to my lifelong friend! I can’t wait until we’re old enough to terrorize the nurses at the senior home together!

  • Happy Birthday to the Thelma to my Louise (only without the whole driving off a cliff ending).

  • Don't forget to smile awkwardly when everyone sings you "Happy Birthday" today!

  • You know you're old when the candles on the cake set off the smoke alarm.

  • Happy Birthday! Just tell yourself you're not aging, you're just becoming a classic.

  • You know what they say about more candles… A bigger wish! Happy Birthday.

  • Happy birthday, bestie. I was going to get you the best present ever, but sadly I’m too big to fit in the gift box.

  • One minute, you’re young and fun. The next, you have a favorite burner on the stove. I think we both know which you are… Happy birthday!

  • Happy birthday, bestie. I hope you’re not waiting for a gift because my presence is my present to you.

  • For your birthday, I wanted to give you something that was both funny and charming, but then I remembered you already have me in your life. Happy Birthday!

  • Here's to another year of "she"nanigans with my favorite partner in crime!

  • Did you know birthdays are actually good for you? Statistics show that the more you have, the longer you live.

  • You're terrible at aging! Can't you at least try to look older? Happy Birthday!

  • For your special day I made you a cake. TA-DAHHH YOU’RE A CAKE! You’re welcome.

  • Forget about the past you can’t change, the future you can’t predict, and the present you're not getting because I didn’t get you one. Happy birthday!

  • Happy Birthday. I forgive you for being younger than me.

  • They say you should take every birthday with a grain of salt. I say take it with a whole bunch of salt...on the rim a very large margarita.

  • Smart, good-looking, and funny! But enough about me. Happy birthday!

  • Don't worry about lighting the candles on your birthday cake—I've already called the fire department.

Emoji Birthday Wishes

emoji birthday cake
Diana Herashchenko
  • You take the🎂birthday girl!

  • Wild 🐎🐎 🐎 couldn't keep me from celebrating your bday!

  • It's your 🎂🎉 🥳🎁! It's 🕖 to 🖌 the town red!

  • You're the 🐝 knees, my BFF! HBD!

  • Cheers to you on your big day! 🥂🍾

  • Happy Bday! The🕯🕯🕯won't be the only thing🔥tonight!

  • Another year older🧓but prob not any wiser. 📚 🤣🤣🤣

  • Happy Birthday, my shining 🌟.

  • Can't wait to🥂 you tonight, bestie! 🍾

  • Happy Birthday to the angel on my shoulder. 😇

  • Happy Birthday to the devil on my shoulder. 👿

  • Wishing you luck to last the whole year through. 🍀🍀🍀

  • Here's to a year full of fun and adventure. ✈️🚢🚆

  • An absolute queen was born on this day. 👑

  • Happy Bday to the coolest 🧊 chick 🐣I know.

  • Hope you have a birthday that's out of this world! 🪐👾💫🌛

  • Cheers to another trip around the ☀️!

  • Happy birthday to the🍞 to my🧈.

  • Thanks for making the 🌎 a better place. Happy Birthday!

  • Happy Birthday, 💃👑.

Birthday Quotes for a Best Friend

two smiling women walking arm in arm by the water
Oliver Rossi
  • "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." —John Lennon

  • "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." —William Shakespeare

  • "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." —Tennessee Williams

  • "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." —Khalil Gibran

  • "A good friend knows all your best stories but a best friend has lived them with you." —Unknown

  • "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." —Elizabeth Foley

  • "The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it." —Hubert H. Humphrey

  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart." —Helen Keller

  • "Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves." —Vincent Van Gogh

  • It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters." —Unknown

  • "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have." —Irish Proverb

  • "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." —Oprah Winfrey

  • "A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are." —Unknown

  • "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." —Marcel Proust

  • "A sweet friendship refreshes the soul." —Proverbs 27:9

  • "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." —Thomas Jefferson

  • "Friendship is a sheltering tree." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." —Helen Keller

  • "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." —Woodrow Wilson

  • "Life was meant for good friends and great adventures." —Unknown

  • "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." —Thomas Aquinas

  • "Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift." —Aretha Franklin

  • "If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." —Winnie the Pooh

  • "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." —Doris Roberts

  • "Friendship is the wine of life." —Edward Young

  • "True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style." —Nicole Richie

  • "Life is nothing without friendship." —Cicero

  • "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything." —Muhammad Ali

  • “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” —Aristotle

  • "Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things." —Paulo Coelho

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