Friend, Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

Friend, Spanish Proverb

May God not prosper our friend that they forget us.

- Spanish Proverb

Advice, Chinese Proverb

隐恶扬善 [yǐn'èyángshàn]

- 中國俗談

隐恶扬善（隱惡揚善）yǐn è yáng shàn

Conceal the faults of others and praise their good points.

- Chinese Proverb

References

Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.

- Western Proverb

Woman, Irish Proverb

Wherever you go, have a woman friend.

- Irish Proverb

Friends, Western Proverb

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.

- Western Saying

Friends, Alfred Tennyson

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Friends, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Friend, Publilius Syrus

진정한 벗

번영은 벗을 만들고, 역경은 벗을 시험한다.

- 페블릴리우스 시루스

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

- Publilius Syrus (1C BC-?)

Friends, Henry Brooks Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

Friends, Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost

- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

Friends, English Proverb

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A friend in need is a friend indeed.

- English Proverb

Friends, Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Friend, Book of Proverbs

A friend is a friend at all times, and a brother is born for the time of adversity.

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 17

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Friend, Chinese Proverb

衣莫若新 人莫若故

- 中國俗談

Friendship is like wine - the older, the better.

- Chinese Proverb

Friend, Esperanto proverb

Amikon montras malfeliĉo.

Translation: A friend shows in misfortune.
Idiomatic translation: A friend is known in adversity, like gold is known in fire.

- Esperanto proverb

Paczolay, Gyula (1997). European Proverbs in 55 languages. DeProverbio.com. p. 159. ISBN 1-875943-44-7.

Note: Another way to phrase this is with the quote "In the world you have three sorts of friends: Your friends who love you, your friends who do not care about you, and your friends who hate you." by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Esperanto_proverbs

Friend, Chinese Proverb

Keep company with good men and good men you'll learn to be.

- Chinese Proverb

Advice, Book of Proverbs

Whoever overlooks an offense fosters friendship, but whoever gossips about it separates friends.

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 9

[17:9] A paradox. One finds (love, friend) by concealing (an offense), one loses (a friend) by revealing (a secret). In 10:12 love also covers over a multitude of offenses.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Friend, Western Proverb

A life wthout a friend is a life without a sun.

- Western Proverb

Friend, Chinese Proverb

交友慢，失友快。

- 中國俗談

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can lose one in an hour.

- Chinese Proverb

Friend, Arabic Proverb

Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.

- Arabic proverb

Quoted in Carol Bardenstein, Translation and Transformation in Modern Arabic Literature:The Indigenous Assertions of Muḥammad 'Uthmān Jalāl, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, p. 66.

Arabic proverb: Proverbs from all Arabic speaking parts of the world.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arabic_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs