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It is good to have some friends both in heaven and in hell.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about hell, americans, good, good luck

You may choose your friends; your family is thrust upon you.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about family, americans, contentment

Three --- friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, money, old, olderness, americans

He who laughs at others' woes finds few friends and many foes.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Candour will lose you some friends, but not as many as deceit.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about lie, americans, contentment

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about need, money, americans, contentment

Three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, money, old, olderness, americans

He who asks more of a friend than he can bestow deserves to be refused.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, money, old, olderness, americans

Those who betray their friends must not expect others to keep faith with them.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about faith, americans

Never drop the friends you made on the way up. You may need them on the way down.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about need, americans, contentment

It takes half your life to learn who your friends are and the other half to keep them.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about life, americans

When you buy friends with anything other than friendship, they do not stay bought long.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about friendship, commerce, americans, contentment

Take a friend for what he does, a wife for what she has, and goods for what they are worth.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, americans

There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about friendship, life, americans

True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; false ones like autumn leaves, found everywhere.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about autumn, americans

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about faith, bad, man, americans

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about rest, heart

Know your friend then leave him.

Proverbs and old sayings