115 Best Friend Quotes

These best friend quotes will remind you of the importance of friendship, especially when life gets tough. After all, there’s a reason why some of the world’s most famous thinkers, inventors, writers, politicians, musicians and more have spent so much time talking about human relationships: Friendships make the world go around. 

While you’re at it, why not take the time to remind your friends that you love them? Consider sending flowers, buying a little gift or simply calling them to tell them that they are important to you. If you really want to impress them, we suggest including some of these best friend quotes in your declarations of love: They certainly get the message across.

• “Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day.” - A.A. Milne

• “True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.” - Anonymous 

• “Best friend isn’t a person, it’s a tier.” - Mindy Lahiri, “The Mindy Project”

• “You make me laugh harder than anybody could make me cry.” - Anonymous

• “A faithful friend loves til the end.” - Anonymous

• “Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.” - Anonymous

• “Friendship is the purest love.” - Osho

• “True friends are always together in spirit.” - L.M. Montgomery

• “Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.” - Bill Watterson

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

• “Life is an awful ugly place to not have a best friend.” - Sarah Dessen

• “A best friend is one that brings out the best in you.” - Anonymous

• “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” - Doug Larson

• “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” - E.B. White

• “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence” - Isabel Allende

• “Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.” - Donna Roberts

• “Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” - C. J. Langenhoven

• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” - Woodrow Wilson

• “And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” - Elie Wiesel

• “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” - Eustache Deschamps

• “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” - Elbert Hubbard

• “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” - Heidi Wills

• “A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” - Leo Buscaglia

• “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

• “True friends are always together in spirit.” - L.M. Montgomery

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

• “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” - Virginia Woolf

• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” - Khalil Gibran

• “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.” - François de La Rochefoucauld

• “A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.” - Unknown

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

• “Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” - George Eliot

• “Friendship is the sweetest form of love.” - Unknown

• “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” - Jim Morrison

• “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” - Euripides

• “Friends are the family you choose.” - Jess C. Scott

• “A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.” - Len Wein

• “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

• “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” - Euripides

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

• “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” - Sylvia Plath

• “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” - S.E. Hinton

• “If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.” - P. C. Cast

• “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

• “The best mirror is an old friend.” - George Herbert

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

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

• “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” - Jane Austen

• “Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel all alone, you aren’t.” - Unknown

• “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” - Unknown

• “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” - John Evelyn

• “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.” - Winnie The Pooh

• “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” - Donna Roberts

• “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” - Mencius

• “Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.” - Unknown

• “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” - Henry David Thoreau

• “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” - A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

• “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

• “Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.”- Truman Capote

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

• “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

•  “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” - Anna Deavere Smith

• “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

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

• “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

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

• “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

• “Friends are connected heart to heart. Distance and time can’t break them apart.” - Unknown

• “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” - Maya Angelou

• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” - David Tyson Gentry

• “Friendship is about finding people who are your kind of crazy.” - Unknown

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

• “Friends are the family you choose for yourself.” - Unknown

• “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable, but about being separated and knowing nothing will change.” - Unknown

• “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” - Henry Ford

• “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

• “Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” - Jean de La Fontaine

• “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Friendship is the wine of life.” - Edward Young

• “We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” - Jennifer Aniston

• “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” - Mindy Kaling

• “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” - Eustace Budgell

• “A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” - Aristotle

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

• “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” - Helen Keller

• “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

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

• “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” - Thomas Aquinas

• “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” - Elizabeth Taylor

• “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

• “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

• “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” - Francesco Guicciardini

• “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” - Marlene Dietrich

• “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” - Samuel Butler

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

• “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

• “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” - Linda Grayson

• “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

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

• “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

• “No friendship is an accident. ” - O. Henry

• “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” - Jay McInerney

• “Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.” - Michelle Obama

• “Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.” - Morgan Matson

• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” - David Tyson

• “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends and true love.” - Mandy Hale

• “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” - Kahlil Gibran

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

• “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

• “Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” - Tennessee Williams

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

• “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” - Dr. Seuss