A Quote by Norm MacDonald

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

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Canadian - Actor
Born: October 17, 1963

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

Theophrastus

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

Aristotle

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 provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

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

Plutarch

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.