Acquaintance Quotes

299 Acquaintance quotes by 236 unique authors

Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might… — Susan Cain
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what… — Susan Cain
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. — Henrik Ibsen
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. — Seneca the Younger
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that… — Franz Kafka
Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over… — Wayne Dyer
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little… — Robert Dallek
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and… — Samuel Freeman Miller
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. — Franklin P Jones
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. — Kenneth Williams
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves… — Matthew Hale
What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men — Charles Dickens
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
She always has kind words for me, so I've wished to know her name. What do I call her?; oh if I saw her again… — Reynold
True true — Unknown Author
You dont ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn't matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer,… — Uknown

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