In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.
~ Greek Proverb
A friend is never known till a man has need.
~ Anonymous
As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
~ Ovid
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
~ John Dryden
He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.
~ Malik Muhammad Jayasi
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
~ Eliza Cook
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
~ Honoré De Balzac
Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.
~ Publilius Syrus
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
~ Lisa Alther
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
~ Mariama Bâ
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
~ Edna Buchanan
Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
~ Katharine Butler Hathaway
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
~ Sheryl Condie
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
~ George Eliot
Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
~ Plutarch
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
~ Paul Harvey
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
~ Alphonse Karr
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
~ Art Buchwald
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
~ Charles Dickens
All holidays can be good times.
~ John Clayton
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
~ John Bunyan
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
~ Lord Byron
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
~ Matt Bomer
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
Great ideology creates great times.
~ Kim Jong Il
There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
~ Stephen Rodrick
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
~ Spike Lee
Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.
~ John Rampton
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
~ David Byrne
Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.
~ Thalia
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
~ Herbert Hoover
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
~ Saint Augustine
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
~ Johnny Depp
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
~ John Singer Sargent
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
~ Mickey Rourke
