Famous Proverbs
56 Proverbs about Adversity / Page 3
21. Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
22. In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, In times of adversity, not one in twenty.
23. Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
24. Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.
25. Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.
26. He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
27. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
28. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain in the spring.
29. It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
30. In adversity is when friendship is proven.