Best Friend Quotes

Best Friend Quotes have been gathered together for you to use when you want to tell your friend what they mean to you. Friendships can last a lifetime and often we take our friends for granted, especially our best friends. Often it is the loss of our best friend that makes it hit home just how much they enriched our lives.

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

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

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Author Unknown

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me. ~Author Unknown

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown

 

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich

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

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
~Author Unknown

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

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 of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb

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

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.  ~Author Unknown

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~Dave Tyson Gentry

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

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don’t want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn’t bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.  ~Jeanette Winterson

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard

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

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine Mansfield

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. ~Author Unknown

We have been friends together – In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin

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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  ~William Blake
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus

In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him I may think aloud.  I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson

No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb

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

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle

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

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  “Pooh!” he whispered.  “Yes, Piglet?”  “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.  “I just wanted to be sure of you.” ~A.A. Milne

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

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau

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

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake

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

She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison

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

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Adabella Radici

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  ~Samuel Johnson

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit

One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence

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

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.  ~Edith Wharton

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.  ~Author Unknown

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

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich

Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.  ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another.  Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.  ~Abraham Lincoln

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends stab you in the front.  ~Oscar Wilde

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.  ~Epicurus

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Friendship is a sheltering tree.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine

Friendship is Love, without his wings.  ~Lord Byron

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

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.  ~Thomas Jefferson

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

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.  ~Diana Cortes

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown

‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.  ~Author Unknown

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ~Emil Ludwig

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

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

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~Thomas A. Edison

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack.  Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.

One who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

The best mirror in the world is an old friend.

True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.

When you look around and your world is crumbling or when you think no one loves you, your best friend is the one to run to you.

A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be somewhere else.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

A road to a friend’s house is never long.

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
~Abraham Lincoln

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
~Homer

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
~Czech. Proverb