Friendships are the glittering gems in the jewelry box of life — precious, rare, and worth flaunting. Whether you’ve been inseparable since kindergarten or bonded over late-night memes, there’s nothing like having a best friend who just gets you.
They’re the ones who laugh at your worst jokes, know all your flaws, and never judge you for that third slice of pizza (or fourth… let’s be real).
But sometimes, it’s hard to find the right words to express just how much your bestie means to you. That’s where we come in!
We’ve gathered a collection of quotes that perfectly capture the magic, mayhem, and downright fabulousness of having a best friend like no other.
1. “Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.” — Unknown
2. “We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.” — Unknown
3. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” — Unknown
4. “Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott
5. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” — Unknown
6. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Unknown
7. “Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.” — Unknown
8. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” — Nicole Richie
9. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
10. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown
11. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” — Proverbs 27:9
12. “You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.” — Unknown
13. “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” — Unknown
14. “Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.” — Unknown
15. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
16. “We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart.” — Unknown
17. “Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” — Unknown
18. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
19. “A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.” — Unknown
20. “I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.” — Unknown
21. “Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.” — Unknown
22. “God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.” — Unknown
23. “We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.” — Unknown
24. “True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.” — Unknown
25. “Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Unknown
26. “I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.” — Unknown
27. “Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.'” — Unknown
28. “When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.” — Unknown
29. “Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.” — Unknown
30. “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus
31. “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” — Unknown
32. “Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” — Unknown
33. “That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you — the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do.” — Unknown
34. “Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart.” — Unknown
35. “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together…there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” — Winnie the Pooh
36. “A faithful friend loves to the end.” — Unknown
37. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” — Unknown
38. “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” — Josh Grayson
39. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
40. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.” — Kristin Hannah
41. “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” — Mindy Kaling
42. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” — Ally Condie
43. “If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh
44. “True friends are great riches.” — Unknown
45. “Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better.” — Unknown
46. “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
47. “A true friend is for ever a friend.” — George MacDonald
48. “The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
49. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
50. “One good friendship will outlive forty average loves.” — Unknown
51. “To friendship every burden’s light.” — Aesop
52. “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
53. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young
54. “My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” –George R.R. Martin
55. “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” — Unknown
56. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
57. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” — S.E. Hinton
58. “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
59. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Hellen Keller
60. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my favorite day.” — A.A. Milne
61. “Thank you for being my unpaid therapist.” — Unknown
Now, you don’t have to fumble for words when you suddenly want to say some cheesy words to your bestie. You’ve got a treasure trove of quotes that perfectly capture the essence of having a best friend in your life.
Whether you’re sharing them with your BFF or just basking in the warm fuzzies they bring, these quotes remind you how special that unbreakable bond truly is.
Send one (or all) of these to your partner-in-crime, and tell them how much they mean to you. Because when it comes to best friends, there’s no such thing as saying “thank you” too often!
Hey fellow Linguaholics! It’s me, Marcel. I am the proud owner of linguaholic.com. Languages have always been my passion and I have studied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Sinology at the University of Zurich. It is my utmost pleasure to share with all of you guys what I know about languages and linguistics in general.