Quotes About Acquaintance

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.

We weren't really friends yet, just knowers of each other's secret stuff.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers

Mediocrity is your enemy, satisfactory is your acquaintance, excellence is your friend, and genius is your soulmate.

This is a short cut to knowing one another," he explained. "School and college and medical school first, please. Joiner and Vickery are from Groton and Harvard; I'm only from Andover and Yale, so they won't let me stay in the same room with them; but we can keep the door ajar and get some of the air from the high life, now and then.

He knew of me. He made a point to know me.

Something good had come of the accident – he had met one of his neighbours.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

By chance we met, by choice we become friend

It's traumatizing to think that a best friend could become just a friend. That's because there's virtually no difference between an acquaintance and a friend. But the gulf between a friend and a best friend is enormous and profound.