
“You gotta take the easy way out, this is life! Remember, a friend in need is a pest.”
Source: World Wrestling Federation (1984-1993), King of the Ring (1993)
Misc.
“You gotta take the easy way out, this is life! Remember, a friend in need is a pest.”
Source: World Wrestling Federation (1984-1993), King of the Ring (1993)
“Those who always
know what’s best
are
a universal pest.”
Those Who Know
Grooks
“A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 1
“6103. A Friend in Need
Is a Friend in Deed.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.”
Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus.
Epidicus, Act I, sc. 2, line 9.
Epidicus
Context: The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
“Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232
The Ringmaster (1991)