BFF Quotes: Funny, Cute and Inspiring

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

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner

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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

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown

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)

My Best Friend Saying

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.

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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

See Thinking of You Friend Messages.

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

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

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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

Laughter with Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Friends Forever

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

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

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

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

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

It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca

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

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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

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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

Friendship Quotes

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

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

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

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

Friendship’s the wine of life.
Edward Young

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.

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