“According as men thrive, their friends are true; if their affairs go to wreck, their friends sink with them. Fortune finds friends.”

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

“A true friend is forever a friend.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“If a friend envies you, then he is not a true friend.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

“if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."

She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

“FUTURE, n.
That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman