125 best friend quotes that capture your unbreakable bond

You probably know the classic childhood rhyme: “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other, gold.” Even though it’s a simple sentiment, it’s fitting in describing the special bond that exists between friends, whether they be old or new.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been besties since childhood or discovered your one true friend a bit later in life, a deep friendship is a rare and precious gift. Don’t miss the opportunity to let someone know how much they mean to you using one of these best friend quotes.

From short best friend quotes like, “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out” to funny best friend quotes like, “As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.”

You’ll also find heartfelt sentiments to jot down in a birthday card to let someone know they are in your thoughts and that you appreciate all they do.

After all, besties are there to support you through life’s biggest moments, comfort you in times of need and pretty much every other milestone in life. They’re also ready and waiting to cheer you on when you’re on top of the world, or to provide a shoulder to cry on during life’s most trying times.

So take a minute to give someone special a well-deserved shoutout with one of these best friend quotes and remind them that when it comes to pals, there’s simply no one better.

Best friend quotes

• “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas

• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

• “Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.” — Janette Oke

• “To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.” — John Bytheway

• “Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.” — Henry Drummond

• “My friends are my estate.” — Emily Dickinson

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

• “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

• “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” — Len Wein

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

• “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

• “The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” — Giotto di Bondone

• “If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the giving of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” — George MacDonald

• “Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.” — Thomas Jefferson

• “But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Funny best friend quotes

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

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

• “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

• “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”

• “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. Glasow

• “An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.” — Jim Hayes

• “Whoever says friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!” — Bronwyn Polson

• “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” — Winnie the Pooh

• “How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em.” — Shel Silverstein

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

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

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

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

• “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

• “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” — Nicole Richie

• “Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.” — Jane Fonda

• “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham

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

• “An integral part of any best friend’s job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die.” — Darynda Jones

Short best friend quotes

• “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach

• “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver

• “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” — C.S. Lewis

• “Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.” — Paulo Coelho

• “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb

• “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen, “Someone Like You”

• “If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” ― Thomas Fuller

• “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

• “A friend is one who knows 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

• “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” — Heidi Wills

• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Kahlil Gibran

• “Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses … swapped back and forth and over again,” — Michelle Obama, “Becoming”

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

• “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.” — Sarah Dessen, “Along for the Ride”

• “A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

• “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” — Maya Angelou, “Letter to My Daughter”

• “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” — Francesco Guicciardini

• “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” — Jennifer Aniston

• “Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too?’”

• “Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young

• “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” —Anna Taylor

• “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” — Ben Jonson

• “Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.” — Jacques Delille

• “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” — Douglas Pagels

• “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

Heartfelt best friend quotes

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

• “Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” — Dolly Alderton, “Everything I Know About Love”

• “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

• “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.” — Kristin Hannah

• “I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.” — Emma Watson

• “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf

• “I hadn’t ever thought that a man could love me in the same way that my friends love me; that I could love a man with the same commitment and care with which I love them. Maybe all this time I had been in a great marriage without even realizing.”— Dolly Alderton, “Everything I Know About Love”

• “Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me.” — Gabrielle Zevin, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”

• “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don’t have to make it official. It just is.” — Mindy Kaling

• “The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.” — Oprah Winfrey

• “You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.” — Lyle Lovett

• “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” — Jane Austen

• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

• “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

• “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

• “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams

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

• “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf

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

• “I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, ‘Hey, you can do this,’ put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!” — Reese Witherspoon

• “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

• “Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be, and it is possible that without them, we don’t recognize ourselves or grow to be what it is in us to be.” — Merle Shain

• “Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh, I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.” — Aberjhani

• “If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” — Charlotte Brontë

• “My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June — and in it are my friends — every one of them.” — Emily Dickinson

• “Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other’s house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other’s parents. You can’t pry them apart.” — Jerry Spinelli

• “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

• “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” —L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

• “Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.” — Jenny Han, “The Summer I Turned Pretty”

• “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield

Best friend quotes about old friends

• “I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.” — L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Avonlea”

• “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.” — Samuel Johnson

• “Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!” —  Michel de Montaigne.

• “It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.” — George Eliot

• “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel

• “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” — George Santayana

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” — Josh Grayson

• “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” — Vincent Van Gogh

• “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” — Octavia Butler

• “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” — John Evelyn

• “Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time, it all takes a tremendous amount of work. But it’s worth it. If you put in the effort, you’ll see the rewards of positive friends who will make your life extraordinary.” — Maya Angelou

• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson

• “True friends are always together in spirit.” — L.M. Montgomery

• “True friendship resists time, distance and silence.” — Isabel Allende

• “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

• “What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves.” — Colette McBeth

• “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley

• “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

• “It seems they had always been, and always would be, friends. Time could change, but not that.” — Winnie the Pooh

• “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” — William Shakespeare

• “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

• “The meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.” — Marguerite Gardiner, “The Idler in France”

• “When twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star, remember that you have a friend though she may wander far.” — L. M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

• “She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she’d forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.” — Ann Brashares, “Sisterhood Everlasting”

• “That’s what makes best friends. It’s not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.” — Jacqueline Woodson, “Maizon at Blue Hill”

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