50 Best Happy Birthday New Wishes for Friends

Say Happy Birthday to a friend or best friend with one of our fabulous birthday wishes! On this page, you’ll find lots of messages and quotes written to help you find the perfect words to wish a friend a brilliant birthday and help kick off their bday celebrations!

50 Best Happy Birthday New Wishes for Friends


The wishes range from beautifully crafted birthday messages for best friends and friends you’ve known for a long time to short and sweet greetings for regular friends and acquaintances. Plus, there’s a great section with birthday wishes for friends who live far away and a collection of belated birthday messages for when you’ve forgotten their special day (whoops!).

Use the quick-links below to jump to a particular section, or scroll down the page to see all of our birthday wishes for friends.

Birthday New Wishes for a Best Friend

Is it your best friend’s birthday? Hooray, how fun! Start their day off with some birthday love with one of these birthday wishes for a best friend, and let your bestie know just how much you care about him or her and how special their friendship is to you!


It’s time to party and make your birthday as special as you are! I hope your day is fantastic, and the year ahead even better still. Happy birthday!


You shine so much brightness and joy into the lives of everyone around you. Thanks for being such an amazing person and best friend, and I hope that today on your birthday some of that brightness shines right back at you!


Happy birthday to my crazy, fun, fabulous best friend! I love you to the moon and back and am so grateful for your friendship and all the fun times we’ve shared this year. I hope you have a great day!


It’s your birthday, let’s party! Cake - check. Candles - check. Drinks - check. Gift - check. Coolest birthday girl ever - check!


Happy birthday to my gorgeous friend, you’re the best! I hope you have a brilliant day.


Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated. Happy Birthday to my best friend!

Stay true to who you are, you are an amazing person and the best ever friend a person could hope for! 


Have a fantastic birthday and a great year ahead.

Happy birthday to my fabulous, witty, kind, brilliant best friend. There is no one else I’d rather spend the day with. Let’s go celebrate and have some fun!

You’ve been there for me through all my ups and downs, and I hope you know I’m always here for you too. Thanks for being such a wonderful best friend. I hope you have a great birthday and the year ahead is the best yet!

I never guessed when we first met that we’d become best friends, or all the silly memories we’d make together! Thanks for all the fun adventures, and here’s to many more in the coming year!

Has anyone told you today how great you are? Because I think you’re the bees knees, the greatest thing since sliced bread, out of this world... basically I think you’re the best! 


Have a great birthday my brilliant, fabulous best friend.

50 Best Happy Birthday New Wishes for Friends




I hope your birthday is full of sunshine and rainbows and love and laughter! Sending many good wishes to you on your special day.

Wishing you a wonderful birthday and a fantastic year ahead! Thanks for being such a great friend.

Happy birthday to such a fabulous friend! 


Wishing you many blessings for the year ahead.

Happy birthday! I’m so grateful for your friendship and all the fun times we’ve had together this year. Here’s to many more!

Happy birthday to a dear friend! I hope you have a very special day and a wonderful year ahead!

Congratulations on your birthday! 


Wishing you a truly fabulous day.

Happy birthday to such a great [guy/gal/friend], I hope you have a fun day today!

Happy birthday! I hope you have a great day today and the year ahead is full of many blessings.

Let’s celebrate, it’s your birthday! Wishing you an awesome day, and brilliant year ahead!
It’s your birthday, let’s get up to some mischief!

Wishing you a very happy birthday and all the best for the coming year. Thanks for being such a great friend!

Many happy returns on your birthday!

I know this past year has had some tough times but I hope that the coming year brings you the good fortune you deserve. You’re a great friend and I am so thankful for your presence in my life.

You’re such a generous, kind, fabulous person and I’m so lucky to have you as a friend. Wishing you an extra special birthday and best wishes for the year ahead.
Happy birthday! Love you lots and can’t wait to celebrate your birthday with you 


[tonight/on the weekend etc]. Thanks for being such a great friend!
Happy birthday to my best buddy! I hope you have a good one.
Write a funny birthday message to your friend and bring some laughter and happiness to their day!

Don’t worry, they are not gray hairs, they are wisdom highlights. You just happen to be extremely wise!

[insert age] is a perfect age. You’re old enough to recognize your mistakes but young enough to make some more. Happy birthday!

You suck at aging! Can you at least try to look older?
You’re not getting older... just more distinguished! Happy birthday.





































































Birthday Quotes for a Friend or Best Friend



In this section, you’ll find a collection of endearing and funny quotes about friendship and about getting older, perfect for writing as part of a greeting card message, or SMS to good friends on their birthday!



These first quotes are all about friendship and what friends mean to you. They are a lovely way to express how you feel about a best friend or friend you’ve known for a long time. From sentimental to funny, they capture the magic of a close friendship.

A wise man once said, “Forget about your past, you cannot change it”. I’d like to add: “Forget about your present, I didn’t get you one”.







Happy birthday. It took you [insert age] years to look this good!







Those aren’t gray hairs you see. They’re strands of birthday glitter growing out of your head. You’re just ready to party!







Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get up again!







Q: What goes up and never comes down?

A: Your age!







Middle age... when “happy hour” is a nap!







How do you know you’ve hit middle-age? In preparation for a big sneeze you cross your legs really hard and hope for the best!







A good friend knows all your best stories. A best friend has lived them with you.

~ Unknown







True friends are like diamonds - bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

~ Nicole Richie







One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca







It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson







Good friends don’t let you do stupid things... alone.







We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence!

~ Unknown







What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

~ Aristotle







Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.

~ Unknown







Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

~ Misty Copeland







Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.

~ Unknown







Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.

~ Unknown







Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.







I’m so glad that we are growing older together, and that you’ll always have a head start!
~ Unknown