Acquaintance Quote by Ambrose Bierce

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called…

— Ambrose Bierce

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and…

— Anonymous

A lifelong friend is someone you haven't borrowed money from yet.

— Anonymous

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

— Ambrose Bierce

“It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I have a lot of acquaintances, a few are buddies”

— Toba Beta

“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”

— Carolyn Wells

“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

— A. C. Benson

“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.”

— Oscar Wilde