Friends come and go but best friends are forever, or something like that. Either way, we have put together a list of all the top best friend quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short best friend sayings, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Best Friend Quotes and Sayings
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“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“ ― Markus Zusak
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel.” ― Jim Morrison
“Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
Life was meant for best friends and good adventures!
Best friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” ― Ed Cunningham
Real friends get respected, treated, and loved like family.
Life is better with true friends.
“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
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” — Clifton Fadiman
A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.
We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.
“There is a reason why you are my best friend. Destiny.” ― Almira Bastari
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ― Charles Lamb
“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?” ― Meghan Markle
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ― Henry Ford
Never let your friends feel lonely… disturb them all the time.
We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.
“You’ll find yourself in a tough situation one day, and on that day only a true friend will soften the situation.” ― Aurora
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ― Walter Winchell
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ — Linda Grayson
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
Best friends are those who share your problems so you don’t have to go through them alone.
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle
Friends become our chosen family!
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“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
Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ ― Linda Grayson
No matter how big the crowd, I’ll always be able to find you.
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” ― Anna Taylor
“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.” — Joseph Parry
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” ― George Santayana
“There is magic in long-distance friendships.” ― Diana Cortes
“The best mirror is an old friend.” ― George Herbert
“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” ― Saint Augustine
One friend can change your whole life. I know (name) did.
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” ― Jim Henson
No friendship is an accident.
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ― Len Wein
“A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
“Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.” ― Peggy Noonan
“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb
“In times of trouble, only true friends will still be with you.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“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
“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
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” — Henry David Thoreau
Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.
Side by side or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart.
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” ― St. Jerome
You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” ― Robert Southey
“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” — Arthur Brisbane
Friends come and go. Best friends will always find their way back.
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ― David Tyson
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” ― Maxwell Maltz
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” ― Tennessee Williams
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.” ― Anna Cummins
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ― Elisabeth Foley
Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.
Friends never ask for food. Best friends are the reason you have no food.
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
“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
When my best friend and I first met, we were both like, you’re really weird.
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” — Frances Ward Weller
We all have that one friend who never learned how to whisper.
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson
A best friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Friends come and go like waves of the ocean, but the true ones stick like an octopus on your face.
“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” ― Greg Tamblyn
“A best friend is the one person that doesn’t leave you worse off by their actions or yours.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.” — Titus Maccius Plautus
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” ― Cookie Monster
“Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.” — A.R. Asher
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.” — Ray Bradbury
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson
“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” ― C.J. Langenhoven
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” ― Lamartine
Friends knock on the door Best friends walk into your house and start eating.
When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” — Donald Miller
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me—I’ll laugh at you.
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracian
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
Frankly, I can’t imagine not being around someone as amazing as you.
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable the older you get.
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Seneca
“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
Good friends show their love in times of trouble, not just in times of happiness.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” — Brandi Snyder
“Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
“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
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” — Jesse Owens
“Best friends are life’s truth tellers.” ― T.J. Condon
We will always be best friends until we are old and senile. Then we can be new friends.
Someday, you’ll need some support in your life, and I promise I’ll be right by your side.
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” — Thomas J. Watson
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” ― Heidi Wills
I don’t know what I did to deserve a best friend like you.
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” — Charles Kingsley
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” — Jacques Delille
I love my crazy best friends.
If you don’t own matching shirts, are you really friends?
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.“ ― Samuel Butler
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.” — Muhammad Ali
Good friends don’t let you do stupid things… alone.
Friendship is finding that special someone you can enjoy being a dumbass with.
“True friends chop the onions and cry together.” ― Ljupka Cvetanova
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” — 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
“Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ― Richard Bach
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” ― Donna Roberts
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter.” ― Khalil Gibran
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.” ― Charles R. Swindoll
Friendship isn’t a big thing, it’s a million little things.
True friends don’t judge each other. They judge other people together.
Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” ― Epicurus
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“ ― Sylvia Plath
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ― Bernard Meltzer
Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” ― Charles Caleb Colton
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ― Marlene Dietrich
If you aren’t somewhat crazy in the head, I’m afraid we can’t be friends.
“Hold on to those who are your true friends.” ― Debasish Mridha
“Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world.” ― Sashank Varma
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson
“Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” — Gina Barreca
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A girl can survive without a boyfriend, but she can’t survive without a best friend.
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“ ― Eustache Deschamps
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale
Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house just take a nap.
“There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” ― Dodinsky
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates
Best friends believe in you when you don’t believe in yourself.
“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
Nothing could ever replace my best friend.
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I think we’ll be best friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.
“How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.” ― Shel Silverstein
A best friend is like a four-leafed clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
When I say I won’t tell anyone, my best friend doesn’t count.
God made us best friends because He knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” — Elie Wiesel
You are my best friend because I wouldn’t dare be this weird with anyone else.
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” ― Ethel Barrymore
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” ― Sicilian Proverb
A true friendship refreshes the soul.
“A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.” ― Bohdi Sanders
“A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body.” ― Jim Hayes
Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can’t pick us up they lie down and listen for awhile.
“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
A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A great friend adds booze.
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” — Charles Darwin
“A true friend who really loves you will never try to change you.” ― Germany Kent
Best friend: one million memories, ten thousand inside jokes, one hundred shared secrets.
I love that I don’t have to act socially acceptable around you.
“A true friend stabs you in the front.” ― Oscar Wilde
We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall , I will pick you up… after I finish laughing.
Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
If I send you my ugly selfies, our friendship is real.
A best friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” ― Winnie the Pooh
“Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad.” — Mohanlal
“Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus
True friendship is not about being inseparable—it is being separated and finding nothing changes.
“Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.” ― Rachel Wolchin
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” ― Anais Nin
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ― Confucius
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” ― Anna Deavere Smith
Best friends are the people in your life that make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better.
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides
Real friends don’t tell you pretty lies. They tell you the ugly truth.
Just remember, if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
Good Times + Crazy Friends = Great Memories!
“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
So that is it for our list of Best Friend Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short Friend Quotes, Engagement Captions and Happy Anniversary Wishes.
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Laynni Locke
Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.