Acquaintances Quotes

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Friends, Cannot

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

Friends, Meet, Thousand

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time, Travel, Person

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
Ian Somerhalder

True, Two, Friends

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Friendship, Alone

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell

Friends, Rather, Few

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

Coffee, Almost, Unless

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends, Fortune, Passport

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 capital.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Business, Through

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

Farewell, Friends, Reading

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Logan P. Smith

Two, Others, While

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Good, Friend, Again

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
Reba McEntire

Friend, Real, Friends

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
Bill Monroe

Music, Together, Made

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Before, Times, Worst

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 through mere fickleness.
Giacomo Casanova

Good, Through, Reason

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.
Milla Jovovich

Friends, Stars, Movie

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Hattie McDaniel

Respect, Friends, Sincerity

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis

Through, Friends, Big

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
Calista Flockhart

Good, Parents, Friends

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 grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Georg Brandes

Friendship, Smile, Made

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
Macaulay Culkin

Age, Good, School

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Together, Friends, Old

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
Erik Qualman

Business, Friends, Wish

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
Charles Bronson

Wife, Children, Friends

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Lydia M. Child

Woman, Book, After

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
Mojo Nixon

Actually, Stage, Fast

I have, like, two best friends, one that I grew up with who's not an actor, and one that is an actor that lives near me in Wales, and they're my friends. I don't have any other friends, really, in the industry. I have acquaintances and people that I will go out for coffee with.
Craig Roberts

Best, Two, Friends

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.
Leah Ward Sears

Mean, Country, Friends

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