At a summit about the civil war in Yemen, Financial Times, 19 September 2017 https://www.ft.com/content/4060a7e0-9972-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b <br class="br">Attributed
“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.
Kamal Haasan (1954) Indian actor
In reply to the wholesome praise that Rajnikanth showered on Kamal Haasan, in Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography (15 January 2014) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3mzyPGSfwKMC&pg=PT120, p. 120
Stephen King book It
Source: It (1986), Ch. 16 : Eddie's Bad Break, §8
Context: Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Kessinger Publishing (2005).
Misattributed
“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)
Tulsi Gabbard (1981) U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district
As quoted in "Will the New Congress End U.S. Allegiance to Saudi Arabia and the War in Yemen?", interview by Sharmini Peries, in The Real News https://therealnews.com/stories/will-the-new-congress-end-u-s-allegiance-to-saudi-arabia-and-the-war-in-yemen (6 January 2019) <br class="br">2019
Thomas Garrett (1789–1871) American abolitionist
In a closing address at his trial (1848), after a judge said to "Thomas, I hope you will never be caught at this business again"; as quoted in History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Vol. 2 (1874) by Henry Wilson, p. 85; also in Station Master on the Underground Railroad : The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett (2005) by James A. McGowan, p. 65
Variant:
Judge — thee hasn't left me a dollar, but I wish to say to thee, and to all in this court room, that if anyone knows of a fugitive who wants a shelter, and a friend, send him to Thomas Garrett, and he will befriend him!
As quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, p. 54
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)
Bobby Heenan (1944–2017) American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator and manager
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