A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 交友慢，失友快。

　　 A friend to every body is a friend to nobody. 广交友，无深交。

　　 A friend without faults will never be found.没有缺点的朋友是永远找不到的。

　　 A good friend is my nearest relation. 良友如近亲。

　　 Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.在私底下要忠告你的朋友，在公开场合又表扬你的朋友。

　　 A faithful friend is hard to find. 益友难得。

　　 A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both. 父亲是财富，兄弟是安慰，朋友兼而有之。

　　 A friend exaggerates a man's virtue, an enemy hiscrimes. 朋友宣扬人的美德，敌人夸大人的罪过。

　　 A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.曩中有钱，不如朝中有友。

　　 A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难朋友才是真朋友。

　　 A friend is a second self. 朋友是另一个我。

　　 A friend is best found in adversity. 患难见真友。

　　 A friend is never known till a man have need.不到患难时，永远不能认识真正的朋友。

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

　　 维持友谊需要三点∶当面尊重他，背后赞扬他，需要时帮助他。

　　 We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.

　　 我们生活中可以没有兄弟，但不能没有朋友。

　　 Without a friend the world is a wilderness.

　　 没有朋友，世界就等於一片荒野。

　　 A bosom friend afar brings distant land near.

　　 海内存知己，天涯若比邻。

　　 Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.

　　 在私底下要忠告你的朋友，在公开场合要表扬你的朋友。

　　 An empty purse frightens many friends.

　　 囊中无分文，亲友不上门。

　　 A ready way to lose friend is to lend him money.

　　 失友皆从借钱起。

　　 A thousand friends are few, one enemy is too many.

　　 朋友千人尚觉少，仇敌一人犹嫌多。

　　 A true friend is known in the day of adversity.

　　 疾风知劲草，患难见真情。

　　 A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

　　 真正的朋友好似两个身子长著一颗心。

　　 Better an open enemy than a false friend.