120 Short Birthday Quotes: Positive and Funny Sayings for Your Best Friend and Family

If you’re here then someone special in your life is likely having a birthday coming up soon.

And, I know, it can be hard to find the right words for what you want to say at the party, in a card or on social media like Instagram.

So in today’s post I want to help you out with that by sharing 120 of the most positive, heartfelt and funny short birthday quotes.

I hope you’ll find the perfect quote here – or maybe a combination of a few of them – to help make that birthday celebration an extra meaningful and memorable one.

Short Birthday Quotes for Your Best Friend

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

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon

“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
– John Mason

“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

“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

“Don’t get all weird about getting older. Our age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying us.”
– Unknown

“Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.”
– Dodinsky

“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

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born, and the day we discover why.”
– William Barclay

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“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

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
– Plautus

“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
– Booth Tarkington

“Let’s celebrate – remember a year in a life of friends.”
– Jonathan Larson

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– Les Brown

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Your birthday is my pleasure.”
– Danny Demeersseman

“Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.”
– Aretha Franklin

“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.”
– George Meredith

Short Birthday Quotes for Your Sister or Brother

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
– Sammy Hagar

“Having a birthday is like reaching a higher peak on a mountain. Pause to admire the view; reflect on how far you have come.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Life seems to fade our memory, so on this birthday, I will forget yours if you forget mine!”
– Kate Summers

“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

“We are always the same age inside.”
– Gertrude Stein

“My life is better with every year of living it.”
– Rachel Maddow

“Your age isn’t you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest.”
– M. Rivers

“A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year.”
– Byron Pulsifer

“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

“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
– Brigitte Bardot

“Celebrate your journey of life.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“You don’t get older, you get better.”
– Shirley Bassey

“Let’s celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“You know you were born for something special when your birthday feels like a national holiday.”
– Unknown

“Another year older, another year wiser.”
– Allie Blum

“Life is too short to be small.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
– Lucy Larcom

“A birthday is a glorious day filled with good laughter, gladness and great memories.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

Funny and Short Birthday Quotes and Sayings

“As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”
– Norman Wisdom

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

“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“You know you’re getting old when you still think of yourself as you were 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realize it’s me.”
– Dave Allen

“At least you’re not as old as you will be next year.”
– Author Unknown

“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
– Bob Hope

“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”
– Edward Morykwas

“To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
– Bernard Baruch

“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

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

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

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
– Charles Schulz

“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.”
– Cora Harvey Armstrong

“The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.”
– H. V. Prochnow

“When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”
– Lisa Loeb

“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

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
– Tom Stoppard

“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

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.”
– Doris Day

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

Cute and Short Birthday Quotes for Your Daughter or Son

“Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.”
– Maureen Hawkins

“Go, go, go, go go, go, go, shawty. It’s your birthday. We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday.”
– 50 Cent

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
– Walt Disney

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
– Franz Kafka

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
– Garson

“On your birthday, always remember how lucky you are to be surrounded by everyone who loves you. Indulge in your cake and enjoy all your presents.”
– Unknown

“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

“Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year.”
– Wilfred Peterson

“Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.”
– Buddy Valastro

“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

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning

“Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes… How do you measure, measure a year?”
– Jonathan Larson

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Let’s eat cake and party like it’s your birthday every day.”
– Kate Summers

“Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Younger than You.”
– Dr. Seuss

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
– George Harrison

“Someday you will be old just like me. But now you are young. So enjoy it all, today and every day.”
– Unknown

“If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day.”
– Jim Croce

Short Happy Birthday to Me Quotes

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“I am not getting older, I’m getting better.”
– Shirley Bassey

“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Satchel Paige

“I wouldn’t say you’re old. You’ve just been young for longer than most of us.”
– Unknown

“Age is a relative term. All my relatives keep reminding me how old I am.”
– Melanie White

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
– Satchel Paige

“Let them eat cake. They deserve it after the year they’ve had.”
– Unknown

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.”
– Paris Hilton

“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”
– Jim Bishop

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
– Mary Schmich

“I’m not really big on gifts. I like giving back on my birthday.”
– Liza Soberano

“It takes a long time to become young.”
– Pablo Picasso

“A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.”
– R. C. Ferguson

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

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

“Time flys like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
– Groucho Marx

“You know you are one year older when you recall attending a friend’s wedding and their kids are now getting married.”
– Unknown

“Just remember that once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
– Charles Schulz

“I’m celebrating me today.”
– Unknown

“Live long and prosper.”
– Mr. Spock

Short Birthday Quotes for Your Wife or Husband

“Together we grow older, together we grow wiser.”
– Unknown

“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
– Erma Bombeck

“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

“You’re not just my spouse, you’re my best friend.”
– Unknown

“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

“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
– Joseph Barth

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
– Robert Frost

“Another year of loving you.”
– Unknown

“With you, every day feels like a celebration.”
– Unknown

“You are my sweetest treasure.”
– Danny Demeersseman

“We should celebrate every day as if it were the anniversary of something precious to us.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“You’re my favorite person to celebrate with.”
– Unknown

“Every birthday is a chance to celebrate another year of love.”
– Unknown

“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”
– Irish Blessing

“Your birthday reminds me how lucky I am to have you.”
– Unknown

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
– The Beatles

“Happy birthday to the love of my life.”
– Unknown

“How you celebrate your partner’s birthday will tell them a lot about what they mean to you, and how important the relationship is to you.”
– Denise Brienne

“Happy birthday to you, always and forever as long as we live! I love you!”
– Unknown

Want more inspiration for upcoming celebrations? Then have a look at these inspirational birthday quotes, the inspirational wedding quotes here and also these short wedding quotes.