A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
Шуткой врага не задобришь, а друга можешь оттолкнуть.
Шути, да осторожно, а то в беду попасть можно. Шутки шути, да людей не мути. Шути, да оглядывайся.
Другие пословицы:
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile
- Friends are thieves of time
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- A friend in need is a friend indeed
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- Choose an author as you choose a friend
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- A friend is never known till needed
- Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them
- A hedge between keeps friendship green