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Quotes About Acquaintances

He who has many friends has no friends.
~ Aristotle
judges in seventeenth-century France were discouraged from socializing on the grounds that friends and acquaintances might one day be called before the court.
~ Simon Singh
There are people you're glad to have them in your life, and there are people, well they're only there, nothing more nothing less.
~ Oussama Bounsir
You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first...
~ Evelyn Waugh
A number of visitors called this morning,' Finchley announced with some pride. He took a tray from a waiting footman and displayed it as if it were a baby. Sure enough there was a little heap of cardboard bits, embossed with the names of nobility, acquaintances, friends and the purely curious.
~ Eloisa James
I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them. It can be embarrassing at times.
~ Dario Franchitti
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
~ George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
~ George Washington
During the initial two years in Mumbai, it was lonely and awkward for me, till I made some friends in South Mumbai.
~ Kirron Kher
At first, I am a bit timid, but when I know people I feel better. Then I give a real impression of Joao Moutinho.
~ Joao Moutinho
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
~ Mark Twain
We grew up together, which is the only reason we're friends. He's actually got a lot of other acquaintances, too, for a few reasons. The first is that he plays soccer in winter and has mates from there. The second and main reason is that he carries on like an idiot. Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
~ Markus Zusak
if a man wants friends be must go among strangers. It's
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
~ Bill Nye
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pastimes form the basis for the selection of acquaintances, and may lead to friendship. A party of women who drop in at each other's houses every morning for coffee to play "Delinquent Husband" are likely to give a cool reception to a new neighbor who wants to play "Sunny Side Up.
~ Eric Berne
He seems to have known everybody there was to be known.
~ Eric Metaxas
strangers were just people he hadn't become friends with yet.
~ Eric Walters
Ever since Aristotle described three different kinds of friends—friends of utility, of pleasure, and of virtue—we have known that a set of friends can be a diverse lot. We can have friends we only see at basketball games or book club, friends we see nearly every day at work, and friends who are our confidants. Specialization is fine—we do not expect to like all of our friends in the same way or for the same reasons. At
~ Bella DePaulo
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.
~ Thomas Friedman
I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
~ J. R. Smith
In my hometown, I know everybody.
~ Vasyl Lomachenko
He now new a number of people but none well. It was easier to have sex with a man than to acquire a friend.
~ Gore Vidal