Best Friend Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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.

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

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

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones

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.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

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.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

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.

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

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

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.

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.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

A friend is the hope of the heart.