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| A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. | | Doug Larson | |
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| 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 | | Diane Sawyer | |
| 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 | |
| I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. | | Euripides | |
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| Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. | | Henry Ford | |
| No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend | | Groucho Marx | |
| 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. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. | | Groucho Marx | |
| The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. | | Aristotle | |
| The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. | | Wilson Mizner | |
| The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. | | Doug Larson | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |