45 Best Friend Quotes

The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker


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


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


Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. – Euripides


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


A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard


A friend is what the heart needs all the time. – Henry Van Dyke


A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams


Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. – G. Randolf


Without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas


Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. – Herodotus


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


My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford


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


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. – Henry David Thoreau


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin


A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell


A friend to all is a friend to none. – Aristotle


A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. – Author Unknown


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. – Douglas Pagels


In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. – John Churton Collins


Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. – Aristotle


The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. – Aristotle


I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. – Helen Keller


A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison


Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau


Your friend is your needs answered. – Kahlil Gibran


A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. – Heidi Wills


My friends are my estate. – Emily Dickinson


It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. – Confucius


A constant friend a thing rare and hard to find. – Plutarch


A friend is a gift you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson


A true friend stabs you in the front. – Oscar Wilde


A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare


Friends are proved by adversity. – Cicero


A friend is the hope of the heart. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you have one true friend you have more than your share. – Thomas Fuller


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard


One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. – Euripides


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasgow


I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch


Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. – Richelle Mead

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