Fair Weather Friend Quotes:

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Friendship, Book, Making Friends, Bff

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Weather, People, Tough Times, Fair Weather Friend

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Friendship, Weather, Two, Fair Weather Friend

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

- E. A. Bucchianeri

topic: True Love, True Friend, Heart, Gadflies, Fair Weather Friend

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

topic: Friendship, Money, Funny Friend, Making Friends, Bff

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

- Fraser Young

topic: Weather, Flattery, Praise, Fair Weather Friend

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Inspirational Rain, Lending Money

Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

- Barbara Park

source: Barbara Park (2011). “Almost Starring Skinnybones”, p.25, Yearling

topic: Mean, Thinking, Weather, Kinds Of Friends, Fair Weather Friend

We're not fair weather friends. We've been in places for a long, long time.

- Jamie Dimon

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Weather, Long, Fairs, Fair Weather Friend

A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

- Martin Short

source: "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

topic: Awards, Years, Weather, Fair Weather Friend, Important Lessons

In fair weather prepare for foul.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Leadership, Weather, Preparation, Fair Weather Friend

always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself

- John Gray

topic: Nice, Distance, Weather, Loving Person, Distance Myself

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Friendship, Brother, Weather, Fair Weather Friend