Best Friend Quotes: Funny, Cute and Inspirational

These best friend quotes capture a lot of what it means to have a close mate. Best friends are the folks you turn to when you have great news to share, and the folks you rely on when something bad has happened in your life.

They make you laugh. And, they’ll keep you honest. They care. Just talking with your BF makes your day go better. They know you. A BF will make the good times better, and the hard time easier.

Relationships like these must be valued, as they don’t come about every day. The insights below will help you place the right value on your relationships.

Quotes About Best Friends

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

We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up…after I finish laughing.
Unknown

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

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

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

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Anna Taylor

I get by with a little help from my friends.
The Beatles

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Cute Friendship Sayings

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis

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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Ray Bradbury

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

As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Unknown

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

Good Friends

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Strong Friendship Quotes

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

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

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. Unknown

We weren’t sisters or brothers by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters or brothers by heart.
Unknown

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore

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Funny Best Friend Quotes

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow

If you have friends who are as weird as you, then you have everything.
Unknown

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx

Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
Unknown

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

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

There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson

I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.
Unknown

We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.
Unknown

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

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In High Places – Inspirational

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

A true friend is hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

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

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Oscar Wilde

Pals and BFFs

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.
Michael Bassey Johnson

True friends can communicate with their eyes.
Mary Rose Magnaye

A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren’t true friends in the first place.
Sandy Ratliff

True friends walk in when the rest of the world has walked out.
Walter Winchell

True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
Unknown

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde

A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.
Sarah Valdez

It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.
Gina Barreca

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BF Forever

A friendship that can end never really began.
Publilius Syrus

The road to a friend’s house is never long.
Danish Proverb

The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert

Friends – they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

I don’t know what’s tighter: our jeans or our friendship.
Unknown

There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.
Lisa Whelchel

A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times.
Molly Oliver

Friends are the family you choose.
Jess C. Scott

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller

Friendship is a long journey through the hills and valleys of life.
Unknown

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
Jim Henson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

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Make the World Beautiful

It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.
Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
Unknown

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

Sitting next to you doing absolutely nothing means absolutely everything to me.
Unknown

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

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

BF’s: The folks you find yourself saying a little prayer for every now and then.
Unknown

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and to have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving

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What is a Best Friend?

Your BF is your closest confidant. He or she is someone you can confide in without a second thought and someone who becomes an important part of life – without whom, things seem to be incomplete. When you think of this person, positive thoughts and excitement flood your mind.

Longfellow saying on old friends

My Buddy

Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.
Unknown

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
Renee Olstead

Good mates are like stars, you can’t always see them. But you know they are there.
Unknown

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I’m surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends.
Pamela Daranjo

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
Dean Koontz

Lighthearted Friendship Quotes

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

A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.
Jim Hayes

Having those weird conversations with your friend and thinking if anyone heard us, we’d be put in a mental hospital.
Unknown

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?'”
“Winnie-The-Pooh” by A.A. Milne

One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. Marcelene Cox

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Otto von Bismarck

I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.
Unknown

Silly Quotes About Friendship

Friends come and go, like the waves of the ocean, but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face. Unknown

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, Damn, that was fun.
Groucho Marx

Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
Robert Brault

Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside.
Unknown

Real friendship is when you friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap. Unknown

I don’t need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets. I have my friends for that.
Unknown

Friendship must be built on a solid foundation of alcohol, sarcasm, inappropriateness and shenanigans. Unknown

We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing homes.
Unknown

Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Awesome Best Friend Quotes

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
Octavia Butler

If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember.You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we are apart, I’ll always be with you.
A.A. Milne

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
Steve Maraboli

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn

Gift of Friendship

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver

Friendship is the wine of life.
Edward Young

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

Friends Forever

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give em.
Shel Silverstein

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.

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