He is my friend who succoreth me, not he that pitieth me. (English).

He is my friend who grinds at my mill-i.e. He is my friend who shows me a real kindness.

Spanish, Portuguese).

He who has no enemy has no friend.

(German).

(English,

In poverty one learns to know his friends. (German). In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in times of adversity not one in twenty. (English).

My friend is he who helps me in time of need. (German). One should fly a laughing enemy and a flattering friend. (German).

Prosperity gets followers but adversity distinguishes them. (English, French).

Prove thy friends ere thou have need. (English).

Three things are not known except in three points: courage

except in war, the wise except in anger and a friend except in adversity. (Arabian).

Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy. (Italian).

Try your friends before you have need of them. (Scotch). Try your friend ere you trust him. (English).

Try your friend with a falsehood and if he keeps it a secret, tell him the truth. (Italian).

Who would have many friends let him test but few. (Italian).

THE TREATMENT OF FRIENDS

A dear bargain, a dear friend.

(Italian).

A friend's faults may be noticed but not blamed. (Danish). A friend's faults should be known but not abhorred.

(Portuguese).

Aft counting keep friends lang thegither. (Scotch).
By requiting one friend we invite many. (English).
Even reckoning maketh long friends. (English).
Fall out with a friend for a trifle. (English).
Friendship should be unpicked not rent. (Italian).

He who is wanting but to one friend loseth a great many

Is it right to forsake old friends in reliance on new ones?

(Tamil).

It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them. (French).

It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an

enemy. (Danish).

Keep your mouth and keep your friend.

(Danish).

Let our friends perish provided our enemies fall with them. He cannot be a true friend who permits those he calls friends to be sacrificed that he may secure the downfall of his enemies.

(Latin, Greek).

Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. (English).

Old friends and new reckonings.

(French).

Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained.

(Danish).

Old friends are not to be paid with gold. (German). To preserve a friend three things are necessary: To honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. (Italian).

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. (Spanish). Friendship is a plant which one must often water. (German).

Little presents maintain friendship. (French).

One should sacrifice everything to friendship except honor and justice. (French).

Patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again. (German).

Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved. (Italian, Danish).

To preserve friendship one must build walls. (Italian). Friendship canna stand aye on one side. (Scotch).

Suffering for a friend doubles the friendship. (English).

FALSE FRIENDS AND FLEETING FRIENDSHIPS

A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship. (Latin). A fairweather friend changes with the wind. (Spanish, Portuguese).

A false friend and a shadow attend only when the sun (American).

shines.

A false friend has honey in his mouth; gall in his heart. (German).

A false friend is worse than an open enemy. (English,

German).

A friend as far as conscience allows.

A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.

(English).
(English).

A friend is often best known by his loss. (German).

A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you. (English).

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. (Spanish). A friend to my table and wine is no good neighbor. (French).

A fu' purse never lacks friends. (Scotch).

All are not friends who speak one fair. (English).

A lost friendship is an enemy won.

(German).

A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words are all mere glass. (Dutch).

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. (English).

A reconciled friend is a double enemy. (English).
Better an open enemy than a false friend.

(Danish).

Better a toom (empty) house than an ill tenant; better no friend than a false friend. (Scotch).

Between friends a bug in the eye-i.e. In matters of trade do not trust a friend's honesty. (Spanish). Between two friends, a notary and two witnesses. (Spanish).

Beware of a reconciled friend as of a devil. (Spanish). Everybody's companion is nobody's friend. (German). Everybody's friend and nobody's friend is all one. (Spanish, Portuguese).

Everybody's friend is everybody's fool. (Dutch, German, Danish).

Eye friend false friend; eye friend back enemy. (German). Friends and mules fail us at hard places. (Gallican). Friends are far from a man who is unfortunate. (Latin). Friends become foes and foes are reconciled. (Latin). Friends frae the teeth outwith-i.e. Insincere friends.

(Scotch).

Friends living far away are no friends. (Greek).

God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself. (Italian).

God will remain, friends will not. (Afghan).

Having wine and having meat one has many friends;

in seasons of misfortune not one is to be found. (Chinese).

He is a friend at sneezing time, the most that can be got from him is a "God bless you." See Curiosities in

Proverbs, p. 354. (English, Italian).

He is no friend that eats his own by himself and mine with

He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight

He never was a friend who has ceased to be one. (French). He that trusts a faithless friend has a good witness against him. (Spanish).

He who has a good nest finds good friends. (Portuguese). He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich. (Spanish).

I am on good terms with the friend who eats his bread with me. (Spanish).

Let him who is wretched and beggared try everybody and then his friends. (Italian).

Let us be friends, let our purses be variance. (Modern Greek).

Many friends and few helpers in need. (German). Many humble servants but not one true friend. (English). Many kinsfolk and few friends. (English).

May God not prosper our friends that they forget us. (Spanish).

No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot.

(English).

No longer foster, no longer dear man. (English).

One seldom finds white ravens and true friends.

(German).

Poverty parteth friends. (English).

Pylades and Orestes died long ago and left no successors. (English).

Save me from my friends. (English).

She devoted herself with every demonstration of affection,

but when the time of need arrived made her retreat. (Hindustani).

So long as fortune sits at the table friends sit there. (German).

Table friendship soon changes.

(English).

Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know. (Danish).

Tell your friend your secret and he'll set his foot on your neck. (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese).

The best friends often become the worst enemies. (German).

The false friend is like the shadow of a sundial. (French).
The friendship between fire and water. (Telugu).
The friendship of the base is a wall of sand. (Urdu).
The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.
(Italian).

The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone. (French).

The interested friend is a swallow on the roof-prepared to fly when winter weather comes. (French). There is no more hold of a new friend than of a new fashion. (English).

They cease to be friends who dwell afar off. (Latin).

When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing. (English).