A hedge between keeps friendship green
Когда между друзьями изгородь, то и дружба дольше.
Смысл: соблюдение границ в отношениях способствует продолжительной дружбе.
Другие пословицы:
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- A friend is never known till needed
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- Choose an author as you choose a friend
- Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
- Old friends and old wine are best
- A friend in need is a friend indeed
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him