English Proverbs about Friendship

Love weighs a thousand pounds.

Between friends all is common.

Old friends and old wine are best.

Old wine tastes good, old friendship is deep.

The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.

The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.

A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.

A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.

A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.

A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

The friendships of men are ineffable.

Friendship is like a plant of slow growth.

Friendship is like a growing plant, which is built up slowly.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

A good book is like a dear friend, and friendship never ends.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Road is long, day is long.

I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.

I like such a friend, he is as straight as a mirror to my faults.

It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world .

There is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world . If you want to make friends without mistakes, you have no friends.

It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. The mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

No man without a friend will not be happy, not in adversity can not recognize a friend.

Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Friends at a distance can make the world very wide; they make up the latitudes and longitudes.

Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul.

In a complex life, there are two things to keep in mind: food for the body, and friendship for the soul.

The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.

The most enjoyable thing in traveling is to make a sincere friend.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

The ability to make real friends is the most successful thing in life.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them.

The deeper we love our friends, the less we flatter them.

The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship.

The smell of coin is often the ominous sign of friendship.

The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.

The pursuit of true friendship is to give, not to take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.

To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities.

Maintaining a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few in number, but fine in quality.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.