In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Understanding the difference between a friend and an acquaintance is easy. Accepting the truth about who's who can be the hard part — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company." "Friend?" he asked. She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities,… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend — Page Smith Copy Share Image
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night... and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually… — Marshall Ramsay Copy Share Image
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Every single day we meet someone new, we may not notice, but they are just in the view. can you please open… — Romeo Huerbana Copy Share Image
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
