A friend is never known till needed
Друга не узнаешь, пока не понадобится его помощь.
Неиспытанный друг ненадежен. Без беды друга не узнаешь.
Другие пословицы:
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
- Friends are thieves of time
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
- A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- Better an open enemy than a false friend