Acquaintance Quote by George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and…

— George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

— George Washington

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

— Orson Scott Card

“In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their capacity for…

— Jean Vanier

“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If men were…

— Montesquieu

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

— Clarence H. Burns

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle…

— Joseph Addison

When the average man becomes thoroughly acquainted with himself, he ceases to wonder why has so few friends.

— Anonymous

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness…

— Joseph Conrad

“My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.”

— Colette