Success Quote by Doug Larson

Friendship sounds wholesome until someone else starts winning. Doug Larson, a cartoonist with a knack for smuggling social critique into a punchline, flips the expected moral script: we assume friends “stick with you” through failure and celebrate your success. He keeps the first half but poisons the second. “Overlooks your failures” is generous, even noble. “Tolerates your success” is the sting, because tolerance is what you offer a loud neighbor or a bad smell, not a person you love.

The intent is to expose an awkward truth we rarely admit out loud: success can be socially disruptive. Your wins reorder the invisible ranking system in a friend group. They create comparison, envy, guilt, and the subtle fear of being left behind. Larson’s verb choice suggests that a friend’s real test isn’t whether they’ll show up when you’re down (many people can play the rescuer), but whether they can remain emotionally steady when you become proof that something is possible - and that they haven’t done it.

The subtext is less “people are terrible” than “friendship is competitive even when it pretends not to be.” By framing success as something that must be endured, Larson gives you a diagnostic tool: watch who gets strangely quiet when good things happen to you, who changes the subject, who adds a joke that shrinks your achievement back to size.

Context matters, too: coming from a cartoonist, it’s calibrated for quick recognition. It lands because it’s funny, and it’s funny because it’s uncomfortably accurate.