George Washington Quotes

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

I have this great test to see if a girl's a real friend. When we're shopping I'll pick out an outfit that I know looks hot and one that is awful. If my friend says the bad one looks good, I know she's not a good friend.

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.

At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.