Quotes About Acquaintances

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

I have been single for some time, and when I say "some time," I mean so long that I have acquaintances who have gotten married, divorced, remarried, and had two children since I last had a serious boyfriend.

They were all people whom I either knew too well or whom I didn't wish to know at all...

Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

played the piano every night and made the most superficial acquaintances with poets and painters and artists that often only lasted a night.

The longer we're alive, the more friends —- and adversaries —- we create, and collect. - Jim Brass

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

10. I will never have a husband and all my female acquaintances will. 11. I WILL have a husband and he will be like my female acquaintances' husbands.

Why is it that chatting with friends is energizing, but making small talk with acquaintances takes such monumental effort?

Acquaintances are not always friends

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness

We Ruh are travelers. Our lives are composed of meetings and partings with brief, bright acquaintances in-between. - Kvothe