Hold a true friend with both your hands.
— Nigerian proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by
your friends.
— Czech Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your
friend's forehead.
— Chinese Proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
— Arabian Proverb
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you
are.
— Russian Proverb
Life without a friend is death without a
witness.
— Spanish Proverb
Friends are lost by calling often and calling
seldom.
— Scottish Proverb
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can
do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the
most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear
from people who are indifferent.
— Russian Proverb
To be friends with camel owners, you cannot live in
huts with low doors.
— Punjabi Proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
— Arabian Proverb
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the
contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together,
knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift
it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath
of kindness, blow the rest away.
— Arabian Proverb
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in
time of adversity not one in twenty.
— English Proverb
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon
choke up the unused path.
— Scandanavian Proverb
Only your real friends will tell you when your face
is dirty.
— Sicilian Proverb
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
— Tongan Proverb
One who looks for a friend without faults will have
none.
— Hasidic Saying
If you want a place in the sun with friends, you
must leave the shade of the family tree.
— Osage proverb
The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no
one.
— Jewish proverb
It is better to be in chains with friends, than to
be in a garden with strangers.
— Persian proverb
Books and friends should be few but good.
— Greek proverb
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true
friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when
there is no meeting of minds.
— Chinese proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with
a hatchet.
— Chinese Proverb
One’s acquaintances may fill the world, but one’s
true friends can
be but few.
— Chinese proverb
At home one relies on parents; away from home one
relies on friends.
— Chinese proverb
With clothes the new are best; with friends the old
are best.
— Chinese Proverb
Don’t make friends with people you don’t know.
— Chinese Proverb
It is easier to visit friends than to live with
them.
— Chinese Proverb
Good friends settle
their accounts speedily.
— Chinese Proverb
At home one relies on parents; away from home one
relies on friends.
— Chinese proverb.
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which
you need most.
— American proverb
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh
with fools.
— Spanish Proverb
Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
— Spanish Proverb
It is good to have
friends, even in hell.
— Spanish Proverb
Friends and wine
should be old.
— Spanish Proverb
When the character of a
man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
— Japanese Proverb
If you always live with those who are lame, you will
yourself learn to limp.
— Latin Proverb
On the road between homes of friends, grass does not
grow.
— Norwegean proverb
It is better in times of need to have a friend
rather than money.
— Greek proverb
Give and take makes good friends.
— Scottish Proverb
Friends are lost by
calling often and calling seldom.
— Scottish proverb
The road to a friend's
house is never long.
— Danish proverb
The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a
limb.
— German Proverb
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our
grief.
— Swedish proverb
There are plenty of
acquaintances in the world, but very few real
friends.
— Chinese proverb
