A proverb, is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. If a proverb is distinguished by particularly good phrasing, it may be known as an aphorism.Proverbs are often borrowed from similar languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the Bible (Book of Proverbs) and medieval Latin have played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across Europe, although almost every culture has examples of its own.
Some Cute Proverbs on friendship
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."
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"A friend is known when needed."
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"A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do."
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"A friend loves at all times."
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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends."
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"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."
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"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."
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"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship."
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him."
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"Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound."
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"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."
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"Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy."
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"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."
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"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."
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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."
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"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
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"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
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"It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them."
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"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor."
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"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."
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"Short judgments make long friends."
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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin."
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"Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are."
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
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"The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one."
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The road to a friend's house is never long."
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"The time to make friends is before you need them."
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"These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller."
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"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon."
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"To keep a new friend, never break with the old."
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"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
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"Who ceases to be a friend never was one."
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"Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless."
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"With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough."
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"Your friendship is your needs answered."
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