Choose an author as you choose a friend.

　　选书如择师。

　　We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.

　　生活可无友，隔壁邻居不可以无。

　　A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.

　　交朋友慢，失友快。

　　Friends must part.

　　天地都散之宴席。

　　A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

　　一本好书，患难之交。

　　Better lose a jest than a friend.

　　宁愿不用说一句顺口溜，以防惹恼朋友们。

　　A friend exaggerates a mans virtue, an enemy his crimes.

　　朋友传扬人的传统美德，对手夸大其词人的罪行。

　　A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

　　赘物富有，比不上朝中有友。

　　Friendship the older it grows the stronger it is.

　　友谊地久天长。

　　Although I are each to rush the thing with you, I will not disappear now with your friendship.

　　尽管我和你分道扬镳，可是我和你的友谊不容易从此消退。

　　A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.

　　开玩笑的总不可以祸福相依，反倒有时候会丧失朋友。

　　Hunger knows no friend.

　　饥难周友。

　　We are good friend forever.

　　大家始终是好朋友

　　We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.

　　大家生活中可以沒有兄弟，但不可以沒有朋友。

　　Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy.

　　不必信任朋友的称赞，也不必仇人的鄙夷放在心里。