Friends may meet, but mountains never greet. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Like to like.
- Out of sight, out of mind.
- Love is blind.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Love will find out the way.
- Love me, love my dog.
- There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Good fences make good neighbours.
- A friend in the market is better than money in the chest.
- He gives twice who gives quickly.
- Lend your money and lose your friend.
- Old love will not be forgotten.
- Dog does not eat dog.
- Love and a cough cannot be hid.
- Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
- A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
- Old friends are better than new ones.
- In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
- Love cannot be compelled.
- There is honour among thieves.
- Every cook praises his own broth.
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
- Hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes.
- Even reckoning makes long friends.
- Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
- All one's geese are swans.
- The bird loves her nest.
- Small gifts keep friendship alive.
- Weight and measure take away strife.
- Lovers' tiffs are harmless.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Occurrunt homines, nequeunt occurrere montes.
They meet men, they cannot meet mountains.
French
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Il n'y a que les montagnes qui ne se rencontrent jamais.
Only mountains never meet.
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Deux montagnes ne se rencontrent point; mais deux hommes se rencontrent.
Two mountains don't meet, but two men do.
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Deux hommes se rencontrent bien, mais jamais deux montagnes.
Two men may meet, but never two mountains.
German
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Berg und Tal kommen nicht zusammen, aber Menschen.
Mountain and valley do not come together, but people do.
Czech
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Nescházejí se hory s horami, ale lidé s lidmi.
Mountains do not meet mountains, but people meet people.
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Nesetkávají se hory s horami, ale lidé s lidmi.
It is not mountains meeting mountains, but people meeting people.