Saturday, December 25, 2004

some famouse sayings

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
*need
at a time of need
in case of need
indeed (certainly, really), indeed and indeed
* A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both.
* A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
* Count true friends as brothers.
* Friendship is stronger than kindred.
* Friendship is the perfection of love
* Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
* We can live without a brother, but not without friends.
* Who finds himself without friends is like a body without a soul.
* Without a friend the world is a wilderness.
* Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship.
* The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
* A good friend is my nearest relation
* A good friend never offends
* A faithful friend is the true image of deity.
* Good company makes the road shorter.
* It is his friends that make or mar a man.
* A false friend has honey in his mouth, gall in his heart.
* A false friend and a shadow attend only when the sun shines.
* A friend’s envy is worse than an enemy’s hatred.
* An open enemy is better than a false friend.
* Better to be alone than in bad company.
* He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company.
* An old friend is better than two new ones.
* Familiar paths and old friends are the best.
* New things are the best things, but old friends are the best friends.
* Old friends and old wine are best.
* Old friends are not to be paid with gold.
* Old roads and old friends are the best.
* Old tunes are sweetest and old friends are best.
* The best looking mirror is an old friend.
* A friend to all is a friend to none.
(=Everybody’s friend and nobody’s friend is all one.
* A hedge between keeps friendship green.
* A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money.
* Lend money, lose a friend.
(=Lend your money and lose your friend
* Be a friend to yourself, and others will be a friend to you.
* Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing.
* Books and friends should be few and good.
* Do not lose your friend for your jest.
Even reckoning makes long friends.
* Short accounts make long friends.
* Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
* Go down the ladder when you marry a wife; go up when you choose friend.
* Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
* He who would have friends must himself be friendly.
* Intimacy does not justify lack of courtesy among friends.
* Make new friends but keep the old.
* Short visits make long friends.
* Sudden friendships, sure repentance.
* Suffering for a friend doubles friendship.
* Who makes friends of all keeps none.
* A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
* A friend is easier lost than found.
* A friend is worth all the hazards we can run.
* A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
* A man is known by the company he keeps.
* All are not friends that speak us fair.
* Be blind to the failings of your friends, but never to their vices.
* Better be wronged by an enemy than by a friend.
* Friends are thieves of time* He makes no friends who never made foe.
* He who has no enemy has no friend
* I cannot be your friend and your flatter too.
* It is good to have some friends both in heaven and in hell.
* To a friend’s house the road is never long.
* When friends meet, hearts warm
* A friend is best found in adversity.
* A friend is never known till needed
* Fall sick and you will who is your friend and who is not.
* Gold is proved with fire; friendship in need.
* One seldom finds white ravens and true friends.
* He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
* If you are rich, you will have many friends; but if you are poor, you will have but few.
* Poverty parts friends
* Prosperity has many friends
* Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
* So long as fortune sits at the table friends sit there.
* Success has many friends.
* They are rich who have friends.

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