Comment Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

— Charlotte Charke

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

— Aristotle

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

— Orville Dewey

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

— Hugh Prather

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's…

— Osamu Dazai

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

— Charles Portis

That's what friends do - support each other as best that they can no matter the circumstances.

— Jim Ross

The way I see it is that good friends support each other after something bad has happened, great friends act as if nothing has…

— Desperate Housewives

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us…

— William Hazlitt