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:
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
- Friends are thieves of time
- Old friends and old wine are best
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- Choose an author as you choose a friend
- A friend in need is a friend indeed
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends