Best Friend Quotes and Sayings

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
William James

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anäis Nin

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I’m surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends.
Anonymous

A friend you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him.
George Dennison Prentice

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

Search not for a friend in time of need, for a true friend shall find thee.
Anonymous

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Aristotle

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Bible: Ecclesiasticus

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

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Sheridan Norton

It’s neither by money, nor by time and nor by looks but it is by truth that a friendship grows.
Anonymous

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

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

When we think about the person who has touched our life the most, we often find that it is not the one who has given us advices, solutions to our problems, nor material good; but someone who silently sat with us when we were in pain, gave us a shoulder to cry on when we were depressed. Shared our pains and sorrows, our confusions like their own. A truly special person called a friend.
Anonymous

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Anonymous

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Anonymous

A true friendship can be compared to good health. You never realize the value of it until it is lost.
Anonymous

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides

Search not for a friend in time of need, for a true friend shall find thee.
Anonymous

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

In my friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton

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