Funny Friendship Quotes About Life and Love

These funny friendship quotes will make you laugh while reminding you just how special your true friends are to you in life.

It can be argued that there is no greater treasure than true friendship. There have been countless books, movies, and stories based on the value of friendship.

What does friendship mean to you?

Everyone has an opinion on friendship, from authors and politicians, to TV personalities! Grab a group of friends and enjoy a laugh with these funny friendship quotes. Some of these are as awkwardly humorous as the best friendships!

Here is our collection of the best quotes about friendship, collected from a variety of sources over the years. Enjoy!

Funny friendship quotes from famous authors

1. “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain

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

3. “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?’” – A.A. Milne

4. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb

5. “Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

6. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

7. “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

8. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf

9. “We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.” –William Somerset Maugham

10. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

11. “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

12. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

Funny quotes about friendship between women

13. “Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.” – Laurie Colwin

14. “One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.” – Marcelene Cox

15. “Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces.” – Anne Lindbergh

Funny Friendship Quotes that are slightly awkward

16. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” – Sylvia Plath

17. “Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside.” – Unknown

18. “Having those weird conversations with your friend and thinking if anyone heard us, we’d be put in a mental hospital.” – Unknown

19. “Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.” – Terri Guillemets

20. “I don’t know what’s tighter, our jeans or our friendship.” – Unknown

21. “Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” – Robert Brault

22. “I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.” – Unknown

23. “Friends come and go, like the waves of the ocean, but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face.” – Unknown

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Funny quotes on what makes a good friend

24. “This is by far your worst idea ever…I’ll be there in 15 minutes.” – Unknown

25. “We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.” – Unknown

26. “Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” – Greg Tamblyn

27. “If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.” – Oprah Winfrey

28. “Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.” – Unknown

29. “True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.” – Emilie Saint-Genis

30. “Friends don’t let friends do stupid things… Alone.” – Unknown

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

32. “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

33. “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

Funny friendship quotes to brighten your day

34. “As your best friend I’ll always pick you up when you fall, after I finish laughing.” – Unknown

35. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

36. “I don’t need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets, I have my friends for that.” – Unknown

37. “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

38. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.” – Len Wein

39. “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

40. “We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.” – Unknown

Funny friendship quotes involving money and politicians

41. “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

42. “I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.” – Ann Richards

43. “I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends – they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!” – Warren G. Harding

44. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler

45. “There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” – Benjamin Franklin

Funny friendship quotes from philosophers

46. “True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

47. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle

48. “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

49. “No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.” – Plato

50. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” – Isaac Newton

Which of these funny friendship quotes resonated with you best?

Hopefully, you have been blessed with a friendship like this! The kind of relationship where you are truly valued and can be yourself is one of life’s greatest riches.

If you are missing a good friend give them a call and catch up! Tag them and share this selection of funny friendship quotes and let them know that for a moment they were on your mind.

No distance is too great, no time too long, when you can share a laugh over the same thing. It is kind of like wishing on the same star!

Which of these funny friendship quotes and sayings resonated with you best? Do you have any other favorite quotes to add? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.