What are friends for? Laughing at your jokes, of course. Get your pals giggling with these funny friendship quotes.
25 Funny Friendship Quotes to Share with Your Friends
Updated on Jun. 19, 2025
Your friends are the people who get you—and get your sense of humor, whether it’s dad-joke corny or dry and droll. It’s almost like you have a secret language between you, with all those inside jokes, funny memes and group-chat shorthand.
But if we’re being honest, the greatest thing about best friends is that you can just be yourself with them. There’s so much to say about this amazing bond—where do you even start? Right here: We rounded up some of the funniest friendship quotes celebrating friendship. Keep reading for wise words that are so spot on, you’ll want to share them with your crew and spread dopamine hits all around.
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Hilarious friendship quotes
1. “To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship.” —Sallust
2. “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” —Jane Austen
3. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” —Elizabeth Taylor
4. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” —Sylvia Plath
5. “Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass, and it goes to pieces.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
6. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” —Euripides
7. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows you are slightly cracked.” —Bernard Meltzer
8. “Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” —Confucius
9. “One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.” —George Carlin
10. “Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.” —C.S. Lewis
11. “She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” —Gabriel García Márquez
12. “Everyone is a complicated human being, and everyone is strong and weak and funny and scared.” —Laverne Cox
13. “Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.” —Charles Dickens
14. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” —Anna Deavere Smith
15. “She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.” —Zadie Smith
16. “Best friend isn’t a person; it’s a tier.” —Mindy Kaling
17. “Let us be elegant or die!” —Louisa May Alcott
18. “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” —Ann Landers
19. “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
20. “All you need to do to be my friend is like me.” —Taylor Swift
21. “One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.” —Henry Adams
22. “I’ll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends—and my friends are hilarious.” —Issa Rae
23. “A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still likes you.” —Elbert Hubbard
24. “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” —Thomas Carlyle
25. “Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.” —Jean de La Fontaine
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