When you have a best friend you want to acknowledge and show your appreciation for, we have put together a list of great besties quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short besties captions for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Besties Quotes and Captions
Good friends don’t let you do stupid things… alone.
“There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” ― Dodinsky
“The best mirror is an old friend.” ― George Herbert
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
Friends come and go like waves of the ocean, but the true ones stick like an octopus on your face.
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen
No matter how big the crowd, I’ll always be able to find you.
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” — Eugene Kennedy
Friendship is finding that special someone you can enjoy being a dumbass with.
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” ― Sicilian Proverb
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” ― Anna Taylor
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.” ― Anna Cummins
We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications
Nothing could ever replace my best friend.
We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.
A true friendship refreshes the soul.
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
If you aren’t somewhat crazy in the head, I’m afraid we can’t be friends.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A best friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” — Frances Ward Weller
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” ― Winnie the Pooh
Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can’t pick us up they lie down and listen for awhile.
“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
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” ― Heidi Wills
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” ― Epicurus
Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable the older you get.
“Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ― Richard Bach
“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” — Mindy Kaling
A girl can survive without a boyfriend, but she can’t survive without a best friend.
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
Someday, you’ll need some support in your life, and I promise I’ll be right by your side.
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb
True friends don’t judge each other. They judge other people together.
Best friends are those who share your problems so you don’t have to go through them alone.
“Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
“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
“A true friend stabs you in the front.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” — Jacques Delille
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale
Real friends get respected, treated, and loved like family.
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.” — Titus Maccius Plautus
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” — Donald Miller
If you don’t own matching shirts, are you really friends?
Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” ― Anna Deavere Smith
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” ― Robert Southey
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” ― Jim Henson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ― Walter Winchell
If I send you my ugly selfies, our friendship is real.
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” — Thomas J. Watson
When I say I won’t tell anyone, my best friend doesn’t count.
I love that I don’t have to act socially acceptable around you.
Friends never ask for food Best friends are the reason you have no food.
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“ ― Sylvia Plath
Never let your friends feel lonely… disturb them all the time.
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” — Jesse Owens
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel.” ― Jim Morrison
It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” ― Anais Nin
“Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world.” ― Sashank Varma
You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
“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
“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?” ― Meghan Markle
“There is a reason why you are my best friend. Destiny.” ― Almira Bastari
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” ― Henry David Thoreau
When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
“You’ll find yourself in a tough situation one day, and on that day only a true friend will soften the situation.” ― Aurora
Good Times + Crazy Friends = Great Memories!
“A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.” ― Bohdi Sanders
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” — Charles Kingsley
I love my crazy best friends.
“A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body.” ― Jim Hayes
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Seneca
Good friends show their love in times of trouble, not just in times of happiness.
“How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.” ― Shel Silverstein
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.“ ― Samuel Butler
Friendship isn’t a big thing, it’s a million little things.
A best friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” — Clifton Fadiman
We all have that one friend who never learned how to whisper.
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ― Confucius
Friends come and go. Best friends will always find their way back.
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ― Bernard Meltzer
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“ ― Markus Zusak
Life is better with true friends.
“A best friend is the one person that doesn’t leave you worse off by their actions or yours.” ― Shannon L. Alder
Real friends don’t tell you pretty lies. They tell you the ugly truth.
“Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.” ― Peggy Noonan
Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house just take a nap.
“Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.” ― Rachel Wolchin
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” — Gina Barreca
Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.
“Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad.” — Mohanlal
Best friends believe in you when you don’t believe in yourself.
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ― Charles Lamb
A good friend knows how you take your coffee. A great friend adds booze.
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me—I’ll laugh at you.
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” ― Lamartine
Frankly, I can’t imagine not being around someone as amazing as you.
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” ― Charles Caleb Colton
“Hold on to those who are your true friends.” ― Debasish Mridha
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter.” ― Khalil Gibran
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ ― Linda Grayson
When my best friend and I first met, we were both like, You’re really weird.
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” — A.A. Milne
Best friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ― Elisabeth Foley
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” — Henry David Thoreau
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” ― Ed Cunningham
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ― Len Wein
Side by side or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart.
“Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” ― Cookie Monster
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ — Linda Grayson
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” — C.S. Lewis
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” ― Ethel Barrymore
Just remember, if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
“A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
“Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus
“True friends chop the onions and cry together.” ― Ljupka Cvetanova
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” ― Donna Roberts
A best friend is like a four-leafed clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
True friendship is not about being inseparable—it is being separated and finding nothing changes.
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson
“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
Friends knock on the door Best friends walk into your house and start eating.
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” ― St. Jerome
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” — Elie Wiesel
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.” — Ray Bradbury
We will always be best friends until we are old and senile. Then we can be new friends.
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
“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
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.” ― Charles R. Swindoll
Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.
“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
Best friends are the people in your life that make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better.
“Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.” — A.R. Asher
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” ― Tennessee Williams
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” ― George Santayana
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ― Henry Ford
“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.” — Joseph Parry
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Best friend: one million memories, ten thousand inside jokes, one hundred shared secrets.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“A true friend who really loves you will never try to change you.” ― Germany Kent
“Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” — Charles Darwin
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ― Marlene Dietrich
I don’t know what I did to deserve a best friend like you.
“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” ― C.J. Langenhoven
“Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree
Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” ― S.E. Hinton
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.” — Muhammad Ali
“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” ― Saint Augustine
God made us best friends because He knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Best friends are life’s truth tellers.” ― T.J. Condon
We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall , I will pick you up… after I finish laughing.
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.
No friendship is an accident.
Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
You are my best friend because I wouldn’t dare be this weird with anyone else.
One friend can change your whole life. I know (name) did.
“Lots of people 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 someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.
Life was meant for best friends and good adventures!
“There is magic in long-distance friendships.” ― Diana Cortes
“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” ― Greg Tamblyn
Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracian
Friends become our chosen family!
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“ ― Eustache Deschamps
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” — Brandi Snyder
I think we’ll be best friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” ― Maxwell Maltz
“In times of trouble, only true friends will still be with you.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ― David Tyson
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
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