Best Friend Quotes

You value your Best Friend above all others – They’ve been there through good times and rocky moments. Share an inspirational quote that shows how much she means to you.

Best Friend Quotes

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

• Best friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
• Memories made together last a lifetime.
• A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas
• Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch
• Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. ― G. Randolf
•  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. – Gloria Naylor
• A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. – Proverbs 27:9​​​
• Love is friendship set on fire.

Having a lifelong “Best Friend” is one of the most important things we can have in our lives. With that mind, we put together an extensive list of heartfelt best friend sayings. Share these with your BBF as a reminder that they are loved and appreciated.

Dog Best Friend Quotes

• Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. – Orhan Pamuk
• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. – Josh Billings
• You may have many best friends but your dog only has one.
• The average dog is nicer than the average person. – Andy Rooney
• Be the person your dog thinks you are. – C.J. Frick
• Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished. – Dean Koontz
• My fashion philosophy is, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty. – Elayne Boosler
• A true friend leaves paw prints on your heart.
• People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story. – Jim Butcher
• The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle
• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. – Josh Billings
• Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ― George Elliot
• Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ― Roger A. Caras
• Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really. – Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ― George Elliot
• A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.” ― Bob Barker
• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. — Roger Caras
• Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. – Elizabeth Taylor
• The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles De Gaulle
• Dogs never bite me. Just Humans – Marilyn Monroe

Funny Best Friend Quotes

• Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb
• I don’t know what’s tighter: our jeans or our friendship.
• There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson
• A best friend is someone who feels that you’re a good egg, but possibly slightly cracked one. – Bernard Meltzer
• 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
• Never let your best friends get lonely… keep disturbing them.
• Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway. – Greg Tamblyn
• When I say I won’t tell anybody, my best friend doesn’t count.
• You don’t have to be crazy to be my best friend… I’ll train you.
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius
• Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
• My imaginary friend thinks he has problems.
• It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
• We are going to be best friends forever… besides you already know too much.
• If you have crazy friends you have everything you’ll ever need.
• A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body. – Jim Hayes
• Friends don’t let friends go to the beach alone.
• Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with. – Cookie Monster
• The alphabet begins with ABC, numbers begin with 123, music begins with do-re-mi, and friendship begins with you and me.
• Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. – Michaela Edmond
• You and I are more than best friends. We’re like a really small gang.
• I will text you 50 times in a row and feel no shame. You’re my friend. You literally signed up for this.
• 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
• You drink too much. You cuss too much. You have questionable morals. You are everything I ever wanted in a friend.
• The tans will fade, but best friend memories will last forever.
• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. – Helen Keller
• In the cookie of life, best friends are the chocolate chips.
• In my friend, I find a second self.
• Love you to the beach and back.
• There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson

Birthday Quotes for Best Friend

• Happy Birthday to the best friend I ever had.
• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye’d, Such seems your beauty still. – William Shakespeare
• The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine L’Engle
• You don’t get older, you just get better. – Shirley Bassey
• Happy birthday! I hope all your birthday wishes and dreams come true.
• Happy birthday to one of my best friend. Here’s to another year of laughing at our own jokes and keeping each other sane! Love you and happy birthday.
• I promise to always overlook your failures and to tolerate your success. Happy birthday my best friend.
• I could never ask for a better friend. Happy birthday wishes to my best friend.
• Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. – Audrey Hepburn
• I am grateful for your true friendship. Hope your birthday is amazing as you are my best friend.
• Happy birthday to the person who did such a great job choosing a best friend.

Best Friends Forever (BFF) Quotes

• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  – Mencius (c.371-289)
• Don’t just count your years but make your year’s count.
• Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting seldom – Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
• Friendship is all about trusting each other, helping each other and being crazy together.
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran
• 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.
• Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.
• Growing apart doesn’t mean that at one time we were best friends. Forever your friend.
• Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. – Chili Davis
• Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life. – Renee Olstead
• Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
• It takes a long time to grow young. – Pable Picasso
• It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.
• One of the best feelings in the world is seeing an old friend and feeling as if nothing has changed.
• The old believe everything. The middle-aged suspect everything. The young know everything. – Oscar Wilde
• The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert (1593-1632)
• Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. – Jean Paul Richter

Best Friends During Hard Times Quotes

• Never forget who was there when you needed them.
• In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
• Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.  – Proverbs 27:17
• Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller
• Courage is grace under pressure. ― Ernest Hemingway
• It is not length of life, but depth of life that matters. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. ― Sydney J. Harris
• If you’re going through hell, keep going. ― Winston Churchill
• Only in the darkness can you see the stars. ― Martin Luther King Jr
• Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ― Francis of Assisi
• It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.
• Just because I’m talking does not mean I’m not your friend, sometimes I’m just quiet.
• The best view comes after the hardest climb.
• It’s not about having the time it’s about making time for your friends.
• Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. – Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
• It’s not that I love waiting, it’s that I love the person I’m waiting for.
• It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.
• Keep your friendships in repair. – Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

Best Friend Religious Quotes

• Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. – Proverbs 27:6
• Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. – Proverbs 27:9
• Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. – John 15:13
• No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. – John 15:15
• That is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. – Romans 1:12
• Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:11
• This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. – John 15:12-14
• Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses’ face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. – Exodus 33:11
• Two are better than one because they have a good return for their work; If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
• Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend. Hebrew (on friends and foes)
• Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. – Proverbs 17:9
• Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered. – Proverbs 11:13
• Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before; advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. – Aristophanes

Best Friend Prison Quotes

• Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
• Outcome is not in your control. What’s in your control is your effort and your intentions. – Amit Sood
• Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• A friend is someone who would bail you out of jail. A best friend would be sitting next to you saying “boy was that fun”.
• Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Gandhi
• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle Onassis
• When two hearts meet after being apart for a time, the world fades away as they meet and share the purest of loves. They are invincible at that moment and that is the magic of their love.
• Once you choose hope, anything is possible. – Christopher Reeve
• It’s not that I love waiting, it’s that I love the person I’m waiting for.
• I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
• Hardships often prepare best friends for an extraordinary destiny.
• Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb
• Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton
• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. – Bruce Lee
• Here’s to staying positive and testing negative.
• Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. – Stephanie Lahart
• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• I acted like it wasn’t a big deal, and it actually was breaking my heart.
• Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.– Unknown
• Sacrifice is one of the purest and selfless ways to love your best friend.
• A best friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.
• A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard
• Happiness is being a friend for a long time and never feel as if anything has changed.
• He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harms. – Proverbs 13:20
• Hard times will always reveal true friends…
• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey
• We know what we are, but know not what we may be. – William Shakespeare
• He who loves the purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend. – Proverbs 22:11
• He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. – Job 6:14
• It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. ― Nelson Mandela

Best Friend Drinking Quotes

• Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up by itself. – Tom Wilson
• When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading. – Henny Youngman
• Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. – George Bernard Shaw
• Alcohol removes inhibitions – like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: Now bring on that damn cat!” – Eleanor Early
• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. – Finley Peter Dunne
• Reality is an illusion that occurs due to my best friend’s lack of alcohol.
• Good people drink good beer. ― Hunter S. Thompson
• Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go/ To heal my heart and drown my woe… ― J.R.R. Tolkien
• I drink to make other people more interesting. ― Ernest Hemingway
• Pouring out liquor is like burning books. ― William Faulkner
• The best beer is always drunk with my Best Friend!
• They who drink beer will think beer. – Washington Irving
• Beer makes you feel the way you ought without beer. – Henry Lawson
• When we drink we get drunk. When we get drunk we fall asleep. When we fall asleep we commit no sin. When we commit no sin we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk and go to heaven! – Brian O’Rourke
• Life was meant for best friends and great adventures.
• To the fall of the Roman Empire, may ours be just as memorable.
• May the best of our past be the worst of our future.
• 24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.  – H.L. Mencken
• May we get what we want, but never what we deserve.
• To us, for this is the youngest we’ll ever be and the oldest we’ve been.
• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
• The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk they’re sober.” – William Butler Yeats