Best Friend Quotes and Sayings

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.
Anonymous

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

She believes in me. And I’m a dreamer so it’s so good to have somebody like that in my life. If she goes away, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I mean, she’s my best friend, you know?…She’s more than that…She’s everything.
Anonymous

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

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
Anonymous

The best vitamin for making friends: B1
Anonymous

One can’t complain. I have my friends. Why, someone spoke to me only yesterday.
Eeyore

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Edward Abbey

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran

They say a dog is a man´s best friend.
That´s if you´re lucky enough to get one of those “friendly” dogs.
Jimmy Fallon

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Anonymous

The wise and intelligent are coming belatedly to realize that alcohol, and not the dog, is man’s best friend. Rover is taking a beating — and he should.
W. C. Fields

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.
Anonymous

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.
Anonymous

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson

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

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition
Diane Sawyer

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.
A.A. Milne

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Swedish Proverb

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