In my best friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
Anon
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Anon
If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.
Stone Temple Pilots
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
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
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
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
Everyone has a “best friend” during each stage of life-only a precious few have the same one.
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
Abraham Lincoln
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
Sare and Cate
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights in life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Anon
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
Anon
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
Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us
If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are.
B.A. Billingsly
Good friends are like stars…. You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
Doug Larson
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
Rita Mae Brown
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Every time I hold you I begin to understand, that everything about you tells me you’re my best friend.
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
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
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edith Wharton