BFF quotes (best friends forever) reflect all the good things that come with having and being a best friend. A confidante, a chum, a mate, or whatever you want to call your pal, can be the source of tremendous happiness in your life.
The unique thing about having a trusted sidekick is that it benefits both sides. Whether you are on the receiving end or on the giving end, it is a blessing the importance of which can never be denied. Find out what the greatest minds have had to say about these important relationships.
BFF Quotations That Show You Care
So many of my smiles are because of you.
Unknown
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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
Friends in Need are Friends Indeed
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson Gentry
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Alexander Dumas
So grateful to be sharing this world with you.
Unknown
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. 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 (See more Quotes about Friendship)
What is a BFF?
A “Best Friend Forever” is typically reserved for one of your closest buddies. That person is one you can trust with just about anything. They know you – both the good and the bad; and yet they still love ya.
You might like our Best Friend Paragraphs.
My Buddy Quotations
BFF quotes cover the gamut. Here are some favorites.
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.
Jay McInerney
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
Socrates
No friendship is an accident.
O. Henry
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life, said I’m here for you, and proved it.
Unknown
Funny Quotes
Funny BFF quotes are meant to be shared (with your best friends).
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
I am so lucky to have a friend who understands me when I don’t even understand myself.
Unknown
Best friend: the one that you can mad only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.
Unknown (Check out these other Funny Friendship Sayings)
Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.
Unknown
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Otto von Bismarck
Good friends don’t let you do stupid things… alone.
Unknown
Friends For Life
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Otto von Bismarck
God made us friends because he knew our parents wouldn’t be able to handle us as sisters.
Unknown – More About Friends
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body.
Jim Hayes
Diamonds are always a girl’s best friend, and dogs are a man’s best friend. Now you know.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
BFF’s offer free therapy.
Unknown
Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.
Unknown
If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.
Oprah Winfrey
Best friends know how crazy you are and still choose to be seen with you in public.
Unknown
Cute Quotations on Friendship
From Oprah Winfrey to Benjamin Franklin, we’ve got you covered with these BFF quotes.
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
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.
Unknown
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
In my friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton
Best friends are the ones who wipe the tears and hold your hand while everyone else just stands around asking what happened.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who will always love you — the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do.
Unknown
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
You’re my Best Friend
BFF quotes do a great job of getting at the essence of friendship.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.
Unknown
Best friends may argue about dumb reasons, but with a long hug, everything gets resolved.
Unknown
Best friends are like stars? You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.
Unknown
You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories that you had with them.
Unknown
Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.
Unknown
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
Kristin Hannah
Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn’t the person you call when you are in jail; most likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.
Irene S. Levine
Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.
Unknown
Let’s swear each with our pinky, We’ll be the best of friends Until we are old and wrinkly!
Unknown
Inspirational Sayings About Friendship
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
Jim Henson
It’s the friends that you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
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
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
Margaret Walker
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller
Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
Steve Maraboli
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez
If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time … then see who sticks around.
Karen Salmonsohn
Friend Sayings
Here are some BFF quotes from notables.
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.z
Jim Henson
Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there.
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
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
— Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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