Misc.
“You gotta take the easy way out, this is life! Remember, a friend in need is a pest.”
Bobby Heenan (1944–2017) American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator and manager
Source: World Wrestling Federation (1984-1993), King of the Ring (1993)
“The female in question was a sloppy pest”
P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
“Those who always
know what’s best
are
a universal pest.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
Those Who Know
Grooks
“A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 1
“6103. A Friend in Need
Is a Friend in Deed.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232
The Ringmaster (1991)
