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Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word -- Emily Dickinson
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. -- Ian Somerhalder
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. -- Charles Bronson
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. -- William Powell
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
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -- Richard Bach
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The people I mixed with in Monaco didn't relate to my South African mentality or humor... Although I have met some wonderful people since I've been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here. -- Charlene, Princess of Monaco
In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year. -- Alana Stewart
We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
Make few acquaintances. -- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances. -- Elsa Triolet
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances. -- Fanny Burney
Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. -- Kate Winslet
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. -- Susan Cain
The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances. -- Humphry Davy
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. -- Herman Melville
I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances. -- Milla Jovovich
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. -- Henrik Ibsen
At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends... -- Grace Kelly
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. -- Douglas William Jerrold
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. -- Hattie McDaniel
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. -- Arthur Miller
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. -- Mojo Nixon
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. -- Arlene Francis
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. -- Robert Jordan
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. -- Oscar Wilde
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
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances"¦I may be an orange peel. -- J. D. Salinger
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. -- Roger Zelazny
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. -- Mark Twain
Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances. -- Sam Altman
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
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like. -- Jamie Farr
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. -- Anton Chekhov
People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them. -- Amit Kalantri
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them. -- Steven Pressfield
I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous. -- Tom Barbash
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed. -- J. G. Ballard
You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either. -- Mallory Ortberg
I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty. -- Jarod Kintz
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
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history. -- Hanif Kureishi
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them. -- George Washington
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
Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned. -- John Friend
Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems. -- Julian Fellowes
our acquaintances"?not our friends"?are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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 friends or just friendly acquaintances. -- Jane Lynch
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. -- Charles Caleb Colton
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends -- Elizabeth Gaskell
A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons. -- Anuj
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past. -- Carl Icahn
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant" My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known ? no wonder, then, that I return the love. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day. -- Fernando Pessoa
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
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. -- Jay Leno
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled. -- William Saroyan

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