Best Friend Quotes: Celebrate Your Unbreakable Bond

The best friend is the one who brings out the best in you.

~Henry Ford

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

~Charles Darwin

Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

~Oscar Wilde

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

~Donna Roberts

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

~Marlene Dietrich

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there

~Rumi

A friend to all is a friend to none.

~Aristotle

There is not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.

~Jim Henson

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

~Jim Morrison

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

~Plutarch

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

~Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

~Elbert Hubbard

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

~Edna Buchanan

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

~Mencius

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

~Hubert H. Humphrey

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

~Ethel Barrymore

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

~Henry David Thoreau

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

~G. Randolf

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

~Bill Watterson

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

~Arnold H. Glasgow

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

~Dr. Seuss

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

~Tom McNeal

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

~A. A. Milne

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside

~A. A. Milne

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

~Tennessee Williams

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~Marcel Proust

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

~Maria Shriver

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover;hard to find and lucky to have.

~Irish Proverb

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

~Ed Cunningham

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

~Helen Keller

Friends are the family you choose.

~Jess C. Scott

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

~Misty Copeland

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

~Linda Grayson

If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.

~Matthew Gray Gubler

Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.

~Candlelight Publications

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.

~Frances Ward Weller

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.

~Tahar Ben Jelloun

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

~Maya Angelou

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

~Francesco Guicciardini

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.

~Ann Kaiser Stearns

Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

~Richard Bach

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

~A.A. Milne

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

~Aristotle

No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

~J.K. Rowling

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

~Richelle Mead

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

~Abraham Lincoln

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.

~William Shakespeare

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

~Jay McInerney

The best mirror is an old friend.

~George Herbert

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

~Aristotle

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

~Doris Lessing

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

~Walter Dean Myers

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

~Stephen Chbosky

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts

~Sarah Dessen

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

~Marian Anderson

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

~Ali Bin Abi Thalib

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

~Sophocles

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

~Aesop

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

~Jean de La Bruyère

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

~Gregory David Roberts

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

~Laura Fraser

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

~Kiera Cass

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

~Baltasar Gracián

Things don't matter, people do

~Rosie Thomas

Friendship is the wine of life.

~Edward Young

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

~Maya Angelou

Friendship…is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…

~C.S. Lewis

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life you can barely remember what life was like without them.

~Anna Taylor

Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart

~Susan Gale

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.

~Heidi Wills

Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.

~Paulo Coelho

Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious.

~Herodotus

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

~C.S. Lewis

True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

~Nicole Richie

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

~Woodrow T. Wilson

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

~Eleanor Roosevelt

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen

~Winnie the Pooh

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

~Steve Maraboli

We were together. I forget the rest

~Walt Whitman

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

~Misty Copeland

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.

~ Oscar Wilde

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.

~Shanna Rodriguez

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

~ Josh Grayson

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

~Elisabeth Foley

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

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

~David Tyson

Lean on me, when you're not strong. And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

~Bill Withers

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

~Len Wein

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

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

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone....You can choose your family.

~Jennifer Lopez