Old friends and old wines are best.
[譯]陳酒味醇,老友情深。
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
[譯]老柴最好燒,陳酒最好飲,老友最可靠,老作家的書最好讀。
On the choice of friends, our good or evil name depends.
[譯]朋友的選擇可影響名譽的好壞。
One flower makes no garland.
[注解]比喻一木不能成林。
[譯]一朵鮮花扎不成花環(huán)。
One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
[注解]foe敵人。此諺語源于德國。
[譯]朋友成百猶覺少,仇敵一人已嫌多。
Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them.
[譯]最好的朋友是指出我們的缺點并幫助改正的人。