Ôn tập Anh Văn 12 - Proverbs about friends - Thẩm Tâm Vy

 Thẩm Tâm Vy’s Archives January 2nd, 2019 ENGLISH PROVERBS ABOUT FRIENDS 
PROVERBS ABOUT FRIENDS 
Their value 
1. Better lose a jest than a friend. 
2. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. 
3. A friend in the market is better than money in the chest. 
4. It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. 
5. He quits his place well that leaves his friend there. 
6. Life without a friend, is death without a witness. 
7. It's merry when friends meet. 
8. When friends meet, hearts warm. 
9. One enemy is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 
10. One God, no more, but friends good store. 
11. Friends tie their purse with a cobweb thread. 
[The implication is that friends are not miserly] 
12. If friends have faith in each other, life and death are of no consequence. 
 [Chinese proverb] 
Their danger 
13. Hatred with friends is succour to foes. 
14. Better an open enemy than a false friend. 
15. It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose. 
[The implication is that it is better to be wronged by an enemy than by a friend] 
16. God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself. 
17. Friends are thieves of time. 
18. A reconciled friend is a double enemy. 
Their disloyalty 
19. Dead men have no friends. 
20. Remember man and keep in mind, a faithful friend is hard to find. 
21. When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing. 
22. Misfortune makes foes of friends. 
23. Penny in purse will bid me drink, when all the friends I have will not. 
24. Poor folks' friends soon misken them. 
["Misken" means "desert, disown"] 
25. Fresh fish and poor friends become soon ill savoured. 
26. Poverty parts fellowship. 
27. In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in time of adversity, not one amongst 
twenty. 
28. He that ceases to be a friend, never was a good one. 
29. Tell nothing to thy friend that thine enemy may not know. 
30. Love your friend, but look to yourself. 
[This and the following proverb advise caution in putting one's complete trust in a friend] 
31. Whensoever you see your friend, trust to yourself. 
Their falseness 
32. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. 
33. There is falsehood in fellowship. 
34. All are not friends that speak us fair. 
35. He that has a full purse never wanted a friend. 
36. Rich folk have many friends. 
37. The rich knows not who is his friend. 
38. When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other weeps. 
True friendship 
39. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 
40. A friend is never known till a man have need. 
41. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. 
42. Friends are made in wine and proved in tears. 
43. At marriages and funerals, friends are discerned from kinsfolk. 
44. Real friendship does not freeze in winter. 
45. A friend is another self. 
46. A good friend is my nearest relation. 
47. Among friends all things are common. 
48. Perfect friendship cannot be without equality. 
49. A good friend never offends. 
50. A true friend is the best possession. 
51. They are rich who have true friends. 
52. No physician like a true friend. 
53. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. 
54. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 
[John 15:13] 
Worthless friends 
55. His own enemy is no one's friend. 
 Thẩm Tâm Vy’s Archives January 2nd, 2019 ENGLISH PROVERBS ABOUT FRIENDS 
56. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 
57. Trencher friends are seldom good neighbours. 
[A "trencher" was a platter for serving food. The implication is that such friends 
will disappear when one can no longer provide them with food and drink] 
Old friends 
58. The best mirror is an old friend. 
59. Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is. 
60. Old fish, old oil, and an old friend are the best. 
61. Old friends and old wine and old gold are best. 
62. Old acquaintance will soon be remembered. 
Choosing friends 
63. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. 
64. Books and friends should be few but good. 
65. Select your friend with a silk-gloved hand and hold him with an iron gauntlet. 
66. Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. 
[As only a small amount of salt is eaten at each meal, the implication is that one 
should spend a long time with a person before becoming his friend] 
67. Sudden friendship, sure repentance. 
68. Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. 
69. Prove your friend ere you have need. [ere: old English = before] 
70. Try your friend before you trust. 
71. Go down the ladder when you marry a wife; go up when you choose a friend. 
Maintaining friendship 
72. Make not thy friend thy foe. 
73. Have patience with a friend rather than lose him forever. 
74. Love your friend with his fault. 
75. Friendship cannot stand always on one side. 
[The implication is that friendship is based on mutual help and kindness] 
76. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. 
77. A hedge between keeps friendship green. 
78. Little intermeddling makes good friends. 
79. When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. 
[The implication is that one should not put off a friend's requests with vain promises] 
80. Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing. 
81. Treat a friend as if he might become a foe. 
82. Friendship is a plant which must be often watered. 
Losing friends 
83. A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound. 
84. One may mend a torn friendship but it soon falls in tatters. 
85. Fall not out with a friend for a trifle. 
86. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 
87. Lend your money and lose your friend. 
88. When love puts in, friendship is gone.