“A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“I'm not usually an eavesdropper, but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

“A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

“You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.”

Brad Thor (1969) American writer

“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

“Friends help each other when they are… you know… going up international hit men and stuff.”

Ally Carter book All Fall Down

“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”

David Nicholls book One Day