Plutarch Quotes

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

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

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

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.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

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

The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

A true friend is tested in adversity.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.