Fair-weather Friends Quotes

He that has many friends, has no friends.

False friends leave you in times of trouble.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

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

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

They love you when you're doing well and hate you when you're the bad guy.

I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.

We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

Fans jump on your bandwagon and desert you when you hit the harder times.

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.