A Quote by Elizabeth I

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
English - Royalty
September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Francis Quarles

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

Norm MacDonald

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

Plutarch

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Euripides

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Theophrastus

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

James Howell

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

John Churton Collins

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

John Churton Collins

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

Alexandre Dumas

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