Acquaintances Quotes

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his… — Honore de Balzac
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. — Martha Beck
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. — Charles Bronson
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. — Donald Cargill
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never… — Giacomo Casanova
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis
To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that… — Michael Jackson
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no… — Kate Winslet
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.… — Mark Twain
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and… — D. H. Lawrence
You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be… — Jane Lynch
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. — Hattie McDaniel
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded… — Henry David Thoreau
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. — Samuel Johnson
The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy… — Wayne Dyer
Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars… — Anne Frank
A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a… — Charles Duhigg
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually… — Georg Brandes

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