Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
Прежде чем с человеком подружиться, съешь с ним бушель соли.
Не узнавай друга в три дня, узнавай в три года. Человека узнаешь, когда с ним пуд соли съешь. Человека узнаешь, как из семи печек с ним щей похлебаешь.
Другие пословицы:
- Old friends and old wine are best
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- Choose an author as you choose a friend
- Friends are thieves of time
- A friend in need is a friend indeed
- A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends