Best Friend Quotes
These best friend quotes capture much 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 times easier.
Relationships like these must be valued, as they don’t happen daily. The insights below will help you place the right value on your relationships.
Quotes About Best Friends
1.) One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
2.) We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up…after I finish laughing.
Unknown
3.) The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley
4.) The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
5.) My best friend is the man who, in wishing me well, wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
6.) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
7.) A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
8.) Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Anna Taylor
9.) I get by with a little help from my friends.
The Beatles
Cute Friendship Sayings
10.) The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
11.) Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
12.) Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
13.) The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
14.) 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
15.) There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
16.) 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
17.) 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
18.) True friends will never part as long as the relationship lives in the heart.
Unknown
19.) 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
20.) 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
21.) The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
22.) Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
23.) 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
24.) A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
25.) Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.
Unknown
26.) Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Strong Friendship Quotes
27.) Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
29.) 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
30.) The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez
31.) 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
32.) A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.
Unknown
33.) We weren’t sisters or brothers by birth, but we knew from the start that fate brought us together to be sisters or brothers by heart.
Unknown
34.) 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
35.) The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
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Funny Best Friend Quotes
36.) Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius
37.) 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
38.) If you have friends who are as weird as you, you have everything.
Unknown
39.) No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx
40.) Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
Unknown
41.) You can always tell a real friend that when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
42.) We’ve been friends for so long that I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.
Unknown
43.) There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
44.) We’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.
Unknown
45.) We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.
Unknown
46.) 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
In High Places – Inspirational
47.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
48.) Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
49.) A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
50.) 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
51.) A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
52.) A true friend is hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
53.) A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
54.) 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
55.) Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
56.) A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
57.) 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
58.) 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
59.) A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
60.) 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
61.) True friends can communicate with their eyes.
Mary Rose Magnaye
62.) 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
63.) True friends walk in when the rest of the world has walked out.
Walter Winchell
64.) True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
Unknown
65.) Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
66.) A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.
Sarah Valdez
67.) It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.
Gina Barreca
68.) I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
Helen Keller
BF Forever
69.) A friendship that can end never really began.
Publilius Syrus
70.) The road to a friend’s house is never long.
Danish Proverb
71.) The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
72.) Friends – they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
73.) I don’t know what’s tighter: our jeans or our friendship.
Unknown
74.) There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.
Lisa Whelchel
75.) A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times.
Molly Oliver
76.) Friends are the family you choose.
Jess C. Scott
77.) In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
78.) Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
79.) A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
80.) Friendship is a long journey through the hills and valleys of life.
Unknown
81.) There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
Jim Henson
82.) One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
Make the World Beautiful
83.) It doesn’t matter where you’re going; it’s who you have beside you.
Unknown
84.) Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
Unknown
85.) A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
86.) I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
87.) Sitting next to you doing absolutely nothing means absolutely everything to me.
Unknown
88.) A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
89.) Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
90.) BF’s: The folks you find yourself saying a little prayer for every now and then.
Unknown
91.) Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
92.) True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
Nicole Richie
93.) Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and to have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
94.) Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
95.) 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
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 incomplete. Positive thoughts and excitement flood your mind when you think of this person.
My Buddy
96.) Best friend: the one you can be mad at only for a short time because you have important stuff to tell them.
Unknown
97.) Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
98.) The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
Renee Olstead
99.) Good mates are like stars, you can’t always see them. But you know they are there.
Unknown
100.) Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
101.) Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
102.) I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I’m surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends.
Pamela Daranjo
103.) Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
104.) 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
Bestie Quotes
105.) A true friend is forever a friend.
George MacDonald
106.) A friend overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Unknown
107.) True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson
108.) Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.
Cicero
109.) Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes, they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
110.) A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
Maya Angelou
111.) Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.
Jane Fonda
112.) Friendship is like money: easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
113.) There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Lighthearted Best Friend Quotes
114.) It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
115.) A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.
Jim Hayes
116.) Having those weird conversations with your friend and thinking if anyone heard us, we’d be put in a mental hospital.
Unknown
117.) 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
118.) One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox
119.) 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
120.) Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Otto von Bismarck
121.) I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.
Unknown
Silly Quotes About Friendship
122.) Friends come and go, like the waves of the ocean, but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face.
Unknown
123.) 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
124.) Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
Robert Brault
125.) Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside.
Unknown
126.) Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house, and then you both just take a nap.
Unknown
127.) 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
128.) Friendship must be built on a solid foundation of alcohol, sarcasm, inappropriateness and shenanigans.
Unknown
129.) We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing homes.
Unknown
130.) Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Awesome Best Friend Quotes
131.) What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
132.) Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
133.) 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
134.) 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
135.) Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
Steve Maraboli
136.) Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
137.) Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
138.) Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
Heartfelt Best Friend Quotes
139.) When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver
140.) Friendship is the wine of life.
Edward Young
141.) The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
142.) 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
143.) One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
Friends Forever
144.) Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
145.) 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
146.) 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
147.) Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
148.) 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
149.) No friendship is an accident.
O. Henry
150.) A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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