Meanwhile, you might also want to check out Friends to the End
, which is often cited as one of the most inspirational sources of “best friends forever” material.- A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
- We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin)
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. (Henry Ford)
- One’s best friend is oneself.
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain)
- A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half cracked. (Bernard Meltzer)
- A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. (Jim Morrison)
- An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body. (Jim Hayes)
- There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
- Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice.
- A best friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
- 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)
- Lots of your friends want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Oprah Winfrey)
- A best friend is somebody who knows every last thing about you, yet still manages to like you anyway.
- Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin)
- Best friends are like thighs — they are always sticking together.
- The best mirror in the world is an old friend.
- Friendship is like money — easier made than kept.
- True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.
- One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins)
- Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.
- True friendship is like sound health — the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- My best friend is the someone who brings out the best of me.
- Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. (Ed Cunningham)
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. (Aristotle)
- Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- 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)
- Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. (Albert Camus)
- The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. (Katharine Mansfield)
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value. Rather, it is one of those things that gives value to survival. (C.S. Lewis)
- Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
- Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
- 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)
- Family is what makes you crazy, friends are what make you sane. (from the movie Dream Lover)
- A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
- A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. (Benjamin Franklin)
- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. (Arthur Brisbane)
- Good friends are like stars — you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.
