Quotes / Fair-Weather Friend

Let your acquaintances be many,
but one in a thousand your confidant.
When you gain a friend, first test him,
and be not too ready to trust him.
For one sort is a friend when it suits him,
but he will not be with you in time of distress.
Another is a friend who becomes an enemy,
and tells of the quarrel to your shame.
Another is a friend, a boon companion,
who will not be with you when sorrow comes.
When things go well, he is your other self,
and lords it over your servants;
But if you are brought low, he turns against you
and avoids meeting you.

—Sirach

Fujiwara... I have always thought of you as a friend. But were you to die tomorrow, I would not lift a finger to save you.

—Kaguya, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."

— Michael Pritchard

”If you’re loyal to everybody, can you really be loyal to anybody?”

— Thrust, Beast Machines

FRIENDSHIP, n.

A ship big enough to carry two in good weather, but only one in foul.

— The Devil's Dictionary

Birds of a feather flock together until the cat comes.

—Proverb

I thought that you'd stay by me

True to the very end

But you ran away the first rainy day

Just a fair weather friend

I had a heart I gave you

But you had one to lend

For, when skies were black

You took it right back

Just a fair weather friend

Foolish me, I couldn't see

The handwriting me on the wall

Sunny skies had dimmed my eyes

I never thought that rain would fall

Just when I needed someone

On whom I could depend

You walked out on me — what else can you be?

Just a fair weather friend.

— Henry King, Just A Fair Weather Friend

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