These Valentine's Day Quotes Are Perfect for Friends
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Friendship is one of life's greatest joys! So, when Valentine's Day comes around, it can be just as important to celebrate your bestie as it would be to honor your partner. That's what we have Galentine's Day for anyway, isn't it? All we're saying is that if you have your very own friendship like the one that Ree and Hyacinth share—then consider yourself one lucky person! To honor this special bond on February 14, why don't you read these best Valentine's Day quotes made especially for friends? They're just what you needed to see right before the holiday.
You see, Valentine's Day isn't just for celebrating romantic love; it's also the perfect time to pay tribute to the people in your life who, in Oprah Winfrey's words, "lift you higher." We've got deeply moving friendship quotes here, happy quotes and Valentine's Day puns that'll make your bestie laugh, as well as plenty of heartfelt Valentine's Day quotes that'll have them reaching for a tissue. The best part? Most of these ideas double as excellent Valentine's Day captions, so you can honor your very own Hyacinth for everyone to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Steve Maraboli
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”
Matthew Gray Gubler
“If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Laurence J. Peter
“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.”
Kahlil Gibran
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
Herodotus
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
Gina Barreca
“It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are diamonds.”
Audrey Hepburn
“True friends are families which you can select.”
Sarah Dessen
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
George Herbert
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
Helen Keller
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Maria Shriver
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
Walter Winchell
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Jess C. Scott
“Friends are the family you choose.”
Barbara Burrow
“A friend is someone you want to be around when you feel like being alone.”
Winnie the Pooh
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Lea Michele
“In this lifetime, if there's anything you need, it's a best friend.”
Mencius
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
Nathanael Richmond
“Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.”
Richard Bach
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
Salman Rushdie
"In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips."
Anaïs Nin
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Linda Grayson
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
Arnold H. Glasgow
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
C.S. Lewis
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
Bill Watterson
"Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend."
William Shakespeare
"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."
Charles Lamb
"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."
Edward Young
"Friendship is the wine of life."
Bernard Meltzer
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
Henry Ford
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
Oprah Winfrey
"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."
Nicole Richie
"True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style."
Oprah Winfrey
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
Reese Witherspoon
"You always gain by giving love."
Elisabeth Foley
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
A.A. Milne
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
Socrates
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Audrey Hepburn
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
Woodrow Wilson
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
Emily Brontë, 'Wuthering Heights'
"Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Stephanie Perkins
"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
Jim Henson
"There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met."
Pablo Neruda
"To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life."
Marlene Dietrich
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
Victor Hugo
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
Paulo Coelho
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
Jane Austen
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Barack Obama
"If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens."
Misty Copeland
"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."
Elaine Davis
"Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will."
John Evelyn
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
Jim Morrison
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
Princess Diana
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
Henry van Dyke
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
Helen Keller
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Cicero
"Life is nothing without friendship."
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