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Best Friend Quotes

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

True Friend Quotes - Old Friend Quotes

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

A true friend is the one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friends are those who lift you up when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

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

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
hey can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

There are no good-byes, wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Brontë

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
- Anonymous

One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend".
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us 'old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley

BFF Quotes - Best Friend Forever

Good friends are like stars...
you don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous

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

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

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Anonymous

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Funny Best Friend Quotes

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

A lifelong friend is someone you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx


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