Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and… — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you can't tell someone how you feel whether it's love, annoyance, hurt feelings and even anger then they will never be… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“You make an impression on everyone you meet, just as everyone you meet makes an impression on you. You need know when… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whether it is a relationship with family members, girlfriends, friends, or co-workers - every relationship is important. Even a casual acquaintance means… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
My strong sense of discipline has always been with me, and it also gave me the need for deep affection. I have… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but… — William James Copy Share Image
It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. — Mojo Nixon Copy Share Image
“You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our… — Frank Arthur Swinnerton Copy Share Image
Stranger. Acquaintance. Buddy. Friend. Best friend forever. Friend. Hardly in touch. Stranger. *Wash. Rinse. Repeat* — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
