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| In token
of friendship |
TadFromPoland
50/M/Pozna%ff, Poland |
Jan 19 1999
11:23PM EST |
There is the pick of my favorite American proverbs on the subject of
friend. Please accept these seven proverbs as a token of our friendship.
A friend cannot be known in prosperity; an enemy cannot be hidden in
adversity. (Recorded distribution: New York)
A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile. (Recorded distribution:
Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, Tennessee)
He makes no friends who never made a foe. (Recorded distribution: Alabama,
Georgia, Ontario, Wisconsin)
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer, too. (Recorded distribution:
Illinois)
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and in hell. (Recorded
distribution: Illinois, Wisconsin)
Let your friends have their peculiarities. (Recorded distribution:
New Jersey)
Truth, harsh though it be, is a faithful friend. (Recorded distribution:
Illinois, Oregon, Wisconsin)
A Dictionary of American Proverbs. New York, Oxford University Press,
1992, p. 233, 234, 236, 237, 616 |
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