national friends day
Happy National Best Friend Day. Pictured: Two whispering little girls swap all the latest gossip as they sit together on a chair in March 1952. Getty Images

Thursday is the day to pay tribute to your best friends. National Best Friends Day 2017 is the perfect time to tell your best pals how much you care and what better way to express your feelings than sharing one of the following quotes? If you prefer to be less sentimental, there are dozens of funny sayings about friendship. you can also share.

The following quotes are courtesy of BrainyQuote, GoodReads, WiseOldSayings and CuratedQuotes.

Sentimental

“The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.” - Hubert H. Humphrey

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” -Orson Welles

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation. Friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.” -Simon Sinek

“Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought that no one but myself.’” -C.S. Lewis “The Four Loves”

“No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.” -Ben Franklin

“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 J.M. Noun, “Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life.”

Love And Friendship

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyal though good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” -Ann Landers

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” -Elbert Hubbard

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.” -Shel Silverstein

Humorous

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 good friend will help you move. A best friend will help you move a dead body.” -Jim Hayes