Friendship is a truly special and enriching aspect of life. Having a best friend means having someone by your side through all the ups and downs, providing support, encouragement, and joy.
In this post, we celebrate the beauty of friendship by sharing 160 heartfelt, funny, and deep best friend quotes that capture the essence of this unique bond.
These quotes can be used to express gratitude for your friendships, send a thoughtful message to your best friend, or even include in a birthday card to make their day extra special.
Meaningful Best Friend Quotes
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“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
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”
– Frances Ward Weller
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
– Euripides
“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
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
– Frank Crane
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
– C.S. Lewis
“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
“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
“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
“Each new friendship can make you a new person because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
– Kate DiCamillo
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
– Charles Kingsley
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Best Friend Quotes for a Birthday
“If ever there is 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’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
– Toni Morrison
“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.”
– Crystal Woods
“In my friend, I find a second self.”
– Isabel Norton
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
– Ally Condie
“Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.”
– Unknown
“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
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson
“A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.”
– Unknown
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
– Francesco Guicciardini
“As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.”
– Gossip Girl
“A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.”
– Simon Sinek
“Every short girl needs a tall best friend.”
– Unknown
“When I count my blessings, I count you twice.”
– Unknown
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
– Proverbs 27:9
“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.”
– Unknown
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– G. Randolf
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“Different, but best friends.”
– Unknown
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
– Christy Evans
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
– Eustache Deschamps
“Always better together.”
– Unknown
Cute and Short Best Friend Quotes
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson
“Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.”
– Patrick Lindsay
“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”
– Jojo Moyes
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“No friendship is an accident.”
– O. Henry
“Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
– Misty Copeland
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
– Jean de La Fontaine
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
– George Herbert
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
– Markus Zusak
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
– Titus Maccius Plautus
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“We’ll be friends ’til we’re old and senile. … Then we’ll be new friends!”
– Unknown
“Friends are those rare people who ask you how you are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts.”
– Thomas Hughes
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran
“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
– Nicole Richie
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
– Unknown
“No road is long with good company.”
– Turkish Proverb
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– Aristotle
“A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helps you create them.”
– Unknown
“The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.”
– Shanna Rodriguez
Funny Best Friend Quotes for Your BFF
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you.”
– Nick Miller (the TV-show New Girl)
“Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.”
– Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.”
– Unknown
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re OK, then it’s you.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.”
– Jim Hayes
“Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.”
– Unknown
“My best friend: someone to share the last cookie with.”
– Cookie Monster
“We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.”
– Unknown
“Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.”
– Terri Guillemets
“I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.”
– Unknown
“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb
“You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.”
– Unknown
“One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”
– Marcelene Cox
“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
– Robert Brault
“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
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
– Samuel Butler
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney
“We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.”
– Unknown
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde
“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
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
– Jane Austen
Best Friend Quotes for Guys on True Friendship
“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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.”
– Henri Nouwen
“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
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
– Richard Burton
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“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
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson
“Friendship – my definition – is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
– Stieg Larsson
“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
“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
