Best Friend Quotes
1. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
2. “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
3. “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 (Winnie the Pooh Quotes)
4. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
5. “Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” — Anonymous
6. “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
7. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
8. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel
9. “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
10. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
11. “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolf
12. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
13. “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
14. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler
15. “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
16. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
18. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
19. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
20. “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
21. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”– George Santayana
22. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
23. “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
24. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
25. “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
26. “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
27. “[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.” — Hubert Humphrey
28. “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” — Dean Koontz
29. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
30. “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, The Gates of the Forest
31. “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, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration
32. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young, Night Thoughts
33. “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
34. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Anonymous
35. “True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” — Anonymous
36. “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.” — Anonymous
37. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
38. “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
39. “That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.” — R. J. L.
40. “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
41. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
42. “Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.” – Mariella Frostrup
43. “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
44. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver
45. “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
46. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor
47. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
48. “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
49. “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
50. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini