Meaningful Short Friend Quotes for Your Besties

Real friends know how you feel but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make it clear now and then, so we have put together a list of all the best short friend quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short friend sayings or funny friend quotes, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Short Friend Quotes and Sayings

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“Don’t regret about growing old my friend, we can share memories and each day renew our friendship.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” ― Samuel Butler

Yeah, my squad is small and full. I go for quality, not quantity. Sorry, but not really!

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.” ― Len Wein

Crazy copilots make for fun journeys and expected destinations.

“Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.” ― Otto von Bismarck

They say friends are the best therapy, but I don’t think it’s working…

“Best friends are life’s truth tellers.” ― T.J. Condon

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

“Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott

I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends

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

Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.

“True friends fiercely debate issues and still walk away as friends.” ― Frank Sonnenberg

“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.” — Charles Dickens

“Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.” ― Peggy Noonan

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson

I love you, but if you make me choose between you and pizza… bye!

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ― Jim Morrison

Of course my friends are crazy. Why else would they spend time with me?

“Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!” ― Bronwyn Polson

We put the Pro in Procrastinate, and make it fun!

Good friends show their love in times of trouble, not just in times of happiness.

“If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.” ― Oprah Winfrey

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

I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.

“The best mirror is an old friend.” ― George Herbert         

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” ― Aristotle

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” — Ann Landers

I’ll choose friendships over relationships any day. Sisters before misters!

You’re sick in the head and a few other places too, but I know I’ll always love you.

“Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.” ― Edwin Arlington Robinson

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” ― John Leonard

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” ― C. J. Langenhoven

“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” ― Robert Brault

“A true friend makes your problem their problem.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“I’ll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends—and my friends are hilarious.” — Issa Rae

Finding friends with the same mental disorder. Priceless!!

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” ― Alexandre Dumas

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” ― Greg Tamblyn

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

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” ― Jay McInerney

“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

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ― Joan Powers

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides

“A true friend doesn’t have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

You can earn your way into our selfie squad by being a little crazy.

“The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend.” ― Ellen J. Barrier

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.” ― Jim Hayes

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson

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

“I am always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” ― J.D. Salinger

“Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

We’ve been friends so long I can’t remember who was the bad influence.

Good friends, terrible ideas.

Here’s to the friend who puts the “pop” in popcorn.

“It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to the friendship that we are not.” ― Mignon McLaughlin

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” — Sicilian Proverb

“Knowledge cannot replace friendship. I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.” ― Patrick to Spongebob

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius

You think my cat is crazy? You should see my best friend at 2 am.

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends – they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!” ― Warren G. Harding

Everyone has a friend who laughs funnier than he jokes.

“I don’t need another friend. I already have two. How many more friends does a guy need?” — Freaks and Geeks, 2000

“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

“We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.” ― Mignon McLaughlin

“The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist.” ― Aaron Machado

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” ― Markus Zusak

A true friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow

“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 life gives you lemons, don’t be afraid to squeeze them into haters’ eyes.

“I’m so jealous. That’s it. I’ve got to get some dumb, ugly friends.” ― Gilmore Girls

I’m already bringing myself, and you expect a board game, too?

“True friends chop the onions and cry together.” ― Ljupka Cvetanova

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

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” ― Eustache Deschamps

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” — Mark Twain

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.” — George Carlin

“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” ― Mark Twain

“… a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri

Best friends share one heart… and maybe one brain, too.

True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.

Friends are the beaches of life.

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” — Confucius

They call us smartasses, but I think they can drop the first part.

“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” — Gina Barreca

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” — Anna Deavere Smith

You don’t have to be crazy to take a selfie with us, but it helps.

“Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way; in these times true friends are the ones who pick you up and dust you off.” ― Ken Poirot

“Friendship is being there when someone’s feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.” — Randy K. Milholland

“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

“My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane.” ― Matt Schucker

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson

“To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship.” — Sallust

“Talk between women friends is always therapy…” ― Jayne Anne Phillips

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ― Henry Ford

Friends don’t let friends do stupid things. Alone.

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Desse

“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” ― Richelle Mead

I’ll always send you my ugly selfies, and I’ll even let you share them.

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich

“True friendship is trading photos from toilets.” ― Mike Wehner

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”  — Maya Angelou

“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb

“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

A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you.

We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard

Friends are the family you choose.

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

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” ― Sylvia Plath

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln

Love is blind. Friendship tells you to use a filter.

“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” ― J.K. Rowling

Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can’t pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.

“There is a reason why you are my best friend. Destiny.” ― Almira Bastari

“If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.” — Matthew Gray Gubler

“True caring friends are a gift; be careful not to tear the wrapping when you open it.” ― RJ Intindola

“We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.” ― William Somerset Maugham

“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

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson

“The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” ― Mark Twain

“No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry

True friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ― Bernard Meltzer

We’ll be friends ’til we’re old and senile… Then we’ll be new friends!

“Some people only get called by their nicknames. Usually, it sounds weird to even say their real name.” ― Kishore

“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’.” — Marx

“A messy house is a must – it separates your true friends from other friends.” ― Jennifer Wilson

“Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.” ― Terri Guillemets

“‘Are we going to be friends forever?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” ― A.A. Milne

“True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.” ― Emilie Saint-Genis

You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.

“True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.” ― Walter Winchell

“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.” — Plato

So that is it for our list of Short Friend Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

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