Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

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.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

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

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

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.