father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both. 父親是財富，兄弟是安慰，朋友兼而有之。
a friend exaggerates a man’s virtue, an enemy his crimes. 朋友宣揚人的美德，敵人誇大人的罪過。
a friend in court is better than a penny in purse. 囊中有錢，不如朝中有友。
a friend in need is a friend indeed. 患難見真交。
a good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 好書如摯友，情誼永不渝。
a life without a friend is a life without a sun. 人生在世無朋友，猶如生活無太陽。
a little help is worth a deal of pity.一點幫助勝於一車同情。
a man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 路遙知馬力，日久見人心。
a real friend never gets in your way, unleyou happen to be on the way down.真正的朋友決不會擋住你的去路，除非你在走下坡路時。
be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.選擇朋友要慢，換朋友更要慢。
be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing. 選擇朋友要審慎，摒棄更要審又慎。
choose an author as you choose a friend.選書如擇友。
friendship is like a plant of slow growth. 友誼像生長着的植物，是慢慢地建立起來的。
friendship is to be strengthened by truth and devotion.友誼要以真實和忠誠來鞏固。
he that has a full purse never wants a friend.只要袋裏有，不愁沒朋友。
i like a si-mp-le friend, who holds my faults like a looking glabefore my face. 我喜歡這樣的朋友，他對我的缺點就像照鏡子一樣直言不諱。
joys shared with others are more enjoyed.與眾同樂，其樂更樂。
life without a friend is death without a witness.在世無朋友，死後無證人。
most men’s friendships are too inarticulate. 人的友誼是無法言喻的。
thy friend has a friend and thy friend‘s friend has a friend so be discreet.你的朋友有朋友，朋友的朋友又有朋友，所以要謹慎小心。
to preserve a friend three things are required: to honour him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities.維持友誼需要三點∶當面尊重他，背後讚揚他，需要時幫助他。
a friend is a second self.朋友是另一個我。
a friend is best found in adversity.患難見真友。
a friend is never known till a man has need.不到患難時，永遠不能認識真正的朋友。
a friend is not so soon gotten as lost.交友慢，失友快。
a friend to all is a friend to none. 濫交者沒有朋友。
a friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.廣交友，無深交。
a friend without faults will never be found. 沒有缺點的朋友是永遠找不到的。
a joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend. 開玩笑總不能化敵為友，反而有時會失去朋友。
a life without a friend is a life without a sun.人生沒有朋友，猶如人生沒有了太陽。
all are not friends that speak us fair.當面説好話的並不都是朋友。
better lose a jest than a friend. 寧可不説一句俏皮話，以免得罪朋友們。
between friends all is common. 朋友間不分彼此。
both together do best of all. 二人同心，無往不勝。
choose an author as you choose a friend. 選書如擇友。
friends that desert us in the hour of need are friends in name, not in reality.在困難時刻背棄我們的是有名無實的朋友。
he that has a full purse never wants a friend. 只要袋裏有，不愁沒朋友。
man is known by the company he keeps.從其交友知其為人。
the man who agrees with everybody is not worth having anybody agree with him.同意所有人的意見的人，不配得到任何人的同意。
write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.忠言雖難聽，必須記在心
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