Show Your Gratitude for Your Ride-or-Dies With These 70 Best 2023 Friendsgiving Quotes (2024)

You've sent the invites, done the decorating and bought the bird. Heck, you've even assembled a killer cornucopia for the table centerpiece and picked out your on-theme nail design. Your favorite holiday of the year is on like Donkey Kong, except for one thing: you haven't dug up any Friendsgiving quotes yet. Think about it...wouldn't sharing some wise, witty, wonderful words from famous folk about friendship be a great way of showing your squad how grateful you are for them? After all, that's what Friendsgiving is all about (well, besides the food)—celebrating your found family, the ones who have stuck by your side through thick and thin.

Along with well-chosen Friendsgiving gifts, nothing will mean as much to your besties as a heartfelt (or humorous!) message on the big day, whether you text it, use it as an IG caption, or include it in a meaningful toast. That's why we've brought together 70 quotes from legendary figures, as well as a few from some not-so-well-known peeps, that speak to the importance of friendship. Some are seriously funny, some might leave not one dry eye in the group, but all get to the heart of why friends matter so much. And if you're in search of some stupendous suggestions for your Friendsgiving meal, be sure to check out our Fantastic Friendsgiving Ideas for 2023 That Go Way Beyond Turkey!

• "Friendship is a sheltering tree." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves." —Vincent van Gogh
• "Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." —Albert Camus
• "I'm thankful for Friendsgiving because it's all the eating and drinking of Thanksgiving without the judgment." —Anonymous
• "A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." —Charles Darwin
• "If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart." —Cesar Chavez
• "A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• "It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs." —W.S. Gilbert
• "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." —Richard Bach
• "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." —Euripides

• "When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." —Woodrow Wilson
• "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." —Marcel Proust
• "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
• "When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'" —Groucho Marx
• "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." —Muhammad Ali
• "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." —Walter Winchell
• "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." —Elie Wiesel
• "Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them." —Anna Taylor
• "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication." —Anna Deavere Smith

• "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." —Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." —Elbert Hubbard
• "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." —Anais Nin
• "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have." —Irish proverb
• "A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body." —Jim Hayes
• "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 true friendship is the best possession." —Ben Franklin
• "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." — Donna Roberts
• "The greatest gift of life is friendship." —Hubert H. Humphrey
• "True friends are like diamonds: bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style." — Nicole Richie

• "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 friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." —Frank Crane
• "It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being." —John Joseph Powell
• "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival." —C.S. Lewis
• "What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship." —Jaye L. Knight
• "Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food." —Anonymous
• "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." —Aristotle
• "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." —Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." —Friedrich Nietzche

• "The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." —Mark Twain
• "Friendship is another word for love." —Unknown
• "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." —Ray Bradbury
• "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." —Virginia Woolf
• "A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be." —Unknown
  
• "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." —Khalil Gibran
• "True friends don’t judge each other. They judge other people together." —Emilie Saint-Genis
• "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." —Herodotus
• "The best mirror is an old friend." —George Herbert
• "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
  

• "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." —Helen Keller
• "Friendsgiving is a feeling of gratitude." —Anonymous
• "To friendship every burden's light." —Aesop
• "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find." —William Shakespeare
• "Friendship's the wine of life." —Edward Young
• "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." —Thomas Aquinas
• "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• " Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff." —Jon Katz
• "A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." —Unknown

• "There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family." — Unknown
• "Friends are all we have to get us through this life — and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." —Dean Koontz
• "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." —G. Randolf
• "A sweet friendship refreshes the soul." —Proverbs 27:9​​​
• "There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy." —Henry Ford
• "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." —John Evelyn
• "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." —Linda Grayson
• "Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust." —Jesse Owens
• "No friendship is an accident." —O. Henry
• "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