A Quote by James Howell

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

James Howell

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James Howell
British - Writer
1594 - 1666

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

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Plato

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Arthur Miller

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

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

Elizabeth I

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

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

Muhammad Yunus

I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

Joyce Maynard

The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.

Joe De Sena

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