Choose an author as you choose a friend.

　　選書如擇師。

　　We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.

　　生活可無友，隔壁鄰居不可以無。

　　A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.

　　交朋友慢，失友快。

　　Friends must part.

　　天地都散之宴席。

　　A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

　　一本好書，患難之交。

　　Better lose a jest than a friend.

　　寧愿不用說一句順口溜，以防惹惱朋友們。

　　A friend exaggerates a mans virtue, an enemy his crimes.

　　朋友傳揚人的傳統(tǒng)美德，對手夸大其詞人的罪行。

　　A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

　　贅物富有，比不上朝中有友。

　　Friendship the older it grows the stronger it is.

　　友誼地久天長。

　　Although I are each to rush the thing with you, I will not disappear now with your friendship.

　　盡管我和你分道揚鑣，可是我和你的友誼不容易從此消退。

　　A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.

　　開玩笑的總不可以禍福相依，反倒有時候會喪失朋友。

　　Hunger knows no friend.

　　饑難周友。

　　We are good friend forever.

　　大家始終是好朋友

　　We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.

　　大家生活中可以沒有兄弟，但不可以沒有朋友。

　　Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy.

　　不必信任朋友的稱贊，也不必仇人的鄙夷放在心里。