Make a friend when you don't need one


Jamaican Proverb

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ELVIS HODZIC
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DALLY SALAD
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NICHOLSON BAKER
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near
SOURCE UNKNOWN
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
TOM BODETT
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CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
TOM BODETT
EVERYONE IS A KING OR QUEEN, YOU DONT NEED A CROWN TO SHOW IT.
GENEREUX PHILIP
Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer tha...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ
No call alligator long mouth till you pass him
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Those who can't dance say the music is no good
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer
JAMAICAN PROVERB
One one coco full basket.
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Cows have no business in horseplay
JAMAICAN PROVERB
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD
I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. T...
DONOVAN BAILEY
I am Jamaican as any Jamaican can be.
HER EXCELLENCY MERLENE OTTEY
Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS
A friend gives you a helping hand when you need it the most and comforts you when you are under atta...
SOTONYE ANGA
Friends are flowers in the garden of life
PROVERB
Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE
dont let the old break you; let the love make you
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A friend in need becomes always a friend in need if you help him once......
ANKALA SUBBARAO
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL
Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!
C.J. MILBRANDT
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music...
A. R. RAHMAN
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
LESLIE FIEDLER
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
WALTER WINCHELL
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
MURIEL BARBERY
The only one you can call a friend is the one who corrects you when you are wrong
MOHAMMED S. HASSAN
You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.
CHINESE PROVERBS
Don’t shout my friend; no one gives you the shit unless you make them.
M.F. MOONZAJER
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ELIZABETH I
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almsho...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I dont need a luxury life, I wanna happy and healthy life
RODZIDAH (ELIZABETH)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
A true friend is one who genuinely laughs when you are happy & also genuinely mourns when you are sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever ne...
SHANNON L. ALDER
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT
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LARRY FLYNT
If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
GERMAN PROVERB
If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
BENTE BORSUM
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ...
GERALD R. FORD
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel...
GEORGE HERBERT
'I dont need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it
LIL WAYNE
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD
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JERRY GARCIA
How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
TANICA S HALL
I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
WEILI DAI
Sometimes the best experiences are days when you u dont do anything...
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III
When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can ...
AMY TAN
Dont put yourself and your happiness in a bubble and block the rest of the world out.cause when that...
KIMBERLY SHILENJE
Forgiveness also means to give more than your friend or brother gave to you,when you were in need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Happiness is like peeing your pants... Everyone can see it,But only you can feel the warmth.
A FRIEND
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT
If your friendship, relationship, amorousness of that of many years has dead-ended, you feel your wo...
PEX PARKER
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
Hold a true friend with both hands
AFRICAN PROVERB
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person i...
IDRIES SHAH
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
RAY LAMONTAGNE
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE
A friend in need is a friend indeed,
WEN JIABAO
Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.
ROBERT POLLOK
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
To have an imaginary friend, first you need to be an imaginary friend.
VICTOR GEERE
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to mak...
ERIC SHANTEAU
When some one messes up dont give them too much rope because people tend to get creative.
ANDONI GARCIA
A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
SARAH DESSEN
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LARRY FLYNT
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
EDGAR BERGEN
A true friend is one who believes in you, even when you have created doubt within yourself. ~ Tom Ba...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
You're going to make the new friend impressed if you keep remember her when she'd forgotten.
TOBA BETA
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
ROBERT E. LEE
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.
ROBERT E. LEE
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.
ROBERT E. LEE
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
PROVERB
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
ADDISON H. HALLOCK
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L.H. COSWAY
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VIKRANT PARSAI
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
JOE E. LEWIS

More Jamaican Proverb

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Those who can't dance say the music is no good
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer
JAMAICAN PROVERB
One one coco full basket.
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Cows have no business in horseplay
JAMAICAN PROVERB
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself
JAMAICAN PROVERB
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB
To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB
The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB
Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB
From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB
Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB
Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB
Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB
All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB
Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB
A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB
Silence implies consent.
PROVERB
The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB
Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB
God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB
Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB
A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB
It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB
Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB
Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB
Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB
A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB
A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB
Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB
The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB
Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB
Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB
The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB
A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB
The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB
You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB
Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB
Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB
Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB
The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB
If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB
Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB
He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB
Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB
The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB
A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB
Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB
Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB
What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB
One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB
Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB
Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB
Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB
Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB
Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB
Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB
Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB
When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB
One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB
No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB
Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB
Practice is the best master.
PROVERB
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB
Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB
A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB
When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB
There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB
Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB
Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB
Time and I against any two.
PROVERB
The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB
Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB
Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB
Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the p...
PROVERB
Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB
He who does not research has nothing to teach.
PROVERB
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
PROVERB
He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB
No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB
Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB
No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB
He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB
Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB
That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB
If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB
Never say die.
PROVERB
There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB
If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB
When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB
Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB
Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB
Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB
Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB
Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB
Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB
Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB
That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB
Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB
Riches have wings.
PROVERB
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB
You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB
The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB
Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB
No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB
Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB
Necessity unites.
PROVERB
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB
It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB
Time tries truth.
PROVERB
Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB
Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB
Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB