Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoughtfulness, and some common interests.

确保友谊常青的诸要素是：诚实、朴实自然、体贴和某些共同的兴趣。

－－Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker 美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.

Suspicion is the poison of friendship. 怀疑是对友谊所下毒药。

－－St. Augustine, Bishop of hippo 希波主教 圣奥古斯丁

The only way to have a friend is to be one. 唯一能获得朋友的办法就是自己先有友道。

－－Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker 美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.

Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration, respect, moral support, and help.

整个一生，我们都有赖于从一些人群中获得友爱、赞美、尊重、道义支持和帮助。

－－Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker 美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.

To make your life a sound structure that will serve others and fulfill your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking support of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble. 要使你的生活成为有益于他人同时又能发挥你自己的潜力的牢固的建筑，你必须记住，除非与他人的支持联系在一起，否则无论多么大的力量都难以持久，单枪匹马必将一事无成。

－－Zichler Edward, American writer 美国作家 爱德华. Z.

True friendship is like sound health .The value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

真正的友谊犹如健康，只有失去时，才会意识到它的价值。

－－Charles Caleb Colton, British writer 英国作家 科尔顿C.C.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

如果两个人对于彼此的小缺点不能相互原谅，他们的友谊便不能持久。

－－Jean de La Bruyere, French moralist 法国道德家 拉布吕耶尔. J. D.

Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided, and their confidences will be honored.

亲密而互相信任的朋友之间彼此赤诚相见，他们不会被戏弄和嘲笑，因而心理踏实无虑，他们之间这种信任会受到尊重。

－－Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist and poet

英国小说家、诗人 史蒂文森. R. L.

We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

我们无法讲出友谊缔造的确切时刻，就像一点一滴地倾注一个容器一样，终有一滴使容器满溢；因此，面对接二连三的好意，终有那么一次会动人心弦，情谊洋溢。 －－James Boswell, British writer

英国作家 博斯韦尔. J.

When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy. Conversely, in times of trouble and

tension, when our spirits are low, unburdening our worries and fears to compassionate friends alleviates the stress.

欣逢喜事，与朋友分享其乐，喜上加喜。反之，身处逆境，情绪颓丧，向富有同情心的朋友倾诉愁苦才会减轻痛苦。 －－Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker 美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.

With close friends in their lives, people develop courage and positive attitudes. Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality; the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life.

生活中有挚友，人们就能鼓起勇气，变得积极。年经人就有精神支柱来表现自己的个性；中老年人则会怀着乐观主义和生活情趣步入晚年。

－－Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker 美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.

 

第二篇：友谊名句

(1)A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.(海内存知己,天涯若比邻.)

(2)A brother may not be a friend,but a friend will always be a brother.(兄弟不一定是朋友,而朋友一定是兄弟.)

(3)Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of Another ;people are friends in spots.(友谊是两者思想的结合,志趣相投才能成为朋友.)

(4)Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. (友谊象生长着的植物,是慢慢地建立起来的.)

(5)Between friends all is common. (朋友之间不分彼此.)

(6)A good book is the best of friends,the same today and forever. (好书如挚友,情谊永不渝.)

(7)A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.(路遥知马力,日久见人心.)

(8) Be true to your word,your work ,and your friend.(人应遵守诺言,忠实自己的工作和友人.)

(9)I know not whether our names will be immortal;I am sure our friendship will .(我不知道我们的名字能否永垂不朽;我敢说我们的友谊会与世长存.)

(10)I like a simple friend , who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.( 我喜欢这样的朋友,他对我的缺点就象照镜子一样直言不讳.)

(11)In the hours of distress and miser ,the eyes of every mortal man turn to friendship;in the hour of gladness and conviviality ,what is our want?It is friendship.When the heart overflows with gratitude,or with any other sweet and sarced sentiment,what is the world to which it would give utterance?a friend.(情绪低落时,人们会寻找友谊/欢乐的时刻,缺少什么呢?还是友谊.在充满感激之情或其他甜蜜,神圣的感情时,又会说什么词呢?朋友.)

(12)It is well that there is no one without a fault,for he would not have a friend in the world . (世界上没有不犯错误的人.想交没有错误的朋友,你就没有朋友.)

(13)It is only the greathearted who can be true friends;the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is .(只有伟大胸怀的人才是真正的朋友;平庸和怯懦之辈决不可能了解真正友谊的含义.)

(14)Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.(人的友谊是无法言喻的.)

(15)No man can be happy without a friend,nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.(没有朋友的人不会幸福.不处逆境不能识别朋友.)

(16)Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance;they make the latitudes and longitudes. (远方的朋友能使世界变得非常宽阔;他们组成了经纬度.)

(17)Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body,friendship for the soul. (在复杂的生命中,有两点要牢记:为生存需要吃饭,而心灵需要友谊.)

(18)Old friends and old wine are best. (陈酒味醇,老友情深.)

(19)The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend.He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.(旅行中最愉快的事是交到一个真诚的朋友.)

(20)The making of friends who are real friends,is the best token we have of a man's success in life. (能交到真正的朋友是人生中最成功的事.)

(21)The more we love our friends,the less we flatter them.(对朋友爱得越深,奉承得就越少.)

(22) The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship.(铜臭味浓往往是友谊的不祥之兆.)

(23)The true friendship seeks to give,not take;to help,not to be helped;to minister,not to be ministered unto.(真正的友谊追求的是给予,而不是索取;是帮助别人,而不是被人帮助;是为人服务,而不是被人服务.)

(24)To prepare a friend,three things are required : to honour him present,praise him absent,and assist him in his necessarities.(维护朋友,有三件事情要做到:当面要尊重他,不在场时要表扬他,苦难时要帮助他.)

(25)Choose thy friends like thy books,few but choice.(选择朋友要象选书那样,数量要少,但质量要精.)

(26) My friend is not perfect---nor am I ---and so we suit each other admirably.(朋友不会十全十美,你自己也一样,双方要互相尊敬.)

(27)The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.(君子之交淡如水.)

(28)For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few;in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many.(酒逢知己千杯少,话不投机半句多.)

(29)A gentleman acts on behalf of an understanding friend,as a woman makes herself beautiful for her lover. (士为知己者用,女为悦己者容.)

(30)Set great store by friendship. (情意重千斤.)