Best Friend Quotes And Sayings

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“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
– Eustace Budgell

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
– Eustache Deschamps

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”
– Flavia Weedn

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Frances Farmer

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

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
– François de la Rochefoucauld

“Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It’s exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you’re kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn’t read into the things you say.”
– Francois Muriac 

“What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.”
– Frank Crane

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
– Friedrich Halm

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– G. Randolf

“A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.”
– George Dennison Prentice

“Doesn’t this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.”
– George Eliot 

“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

“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
– Grace Pulpit

“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.”
– Heather Pryor

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“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.”
– Henri Nouwen

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”
– Henry Ford

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

“Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“In my friend, I find a second self.”
– Isabel Norton

“True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Jason Jordan

“Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don’t want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn’t bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
– John Evelyn

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
– John Leonard

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
– Joseph Addison

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
– Kahil Gibran

“Your friend is your needs answered.”
– Kahil Gibran

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