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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. — Kate Winslet

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

Make few acquaintances. — Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'. — Craig Brown

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate. — Matshona Dhliwayo

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad. — Jenny Offill

Mr. Satterthwaite's conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances. — Agatha Christie

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

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

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller

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

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. — Malcolm Gladwell

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 fact that you and I are acquaintances only interested and amused the ghosts further. Gossip bunch, really. — August Westman

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. — Herman Melville

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

Leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered — Joseph Conrad

The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit, and made herself at home among them. — Kate Chopin

I felt a bit like Dante, chancing upon one of his old acquaintances in the nth circle of hell. — Paul Murray

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

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends ... — Grace Kelly

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances. — Elsa Triolet

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold

I have several people among my acquaintances who might be described as 'fearsome rogues.' Did he give a name? — Pamela Belle

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

Acquaintances give us moments; friends give us hours; good friends give us days. — Harry Beckwith

The possessor of such great expectations, - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness; — Charles Dickens

I have a lot of acquaintances, a few are buddies — Toba Beta

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. — Susan Cain

It is normal to have enemies,
common to have acquaintances,
and unusual to have friends. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Each of us lives and works on a small part of the earth's surface, moves in a small circle, and of these acquaintances knows only a few intimately. — Walter Lippmann

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

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

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

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan

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

Discuss with your enemies,
laugh with your acquaintances,
share with your friends. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Happiness is bliss - but ignorance is anesthetic, and in the face of what's to come, that may be all we can hope for our ill-fated acquaintances. — William Ritter

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

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

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

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually. — Colette

There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet. — Malorie Blackman

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances. — Robert A. Heinlein

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word — Emily Dickinson

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable. — Agatha Christie

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Acquaintances are abundant, but friends are the few most valuable gems we hold dear. — J. Hale Turner

While toxic food is bad for your health and well-being, so are negative and unethical people. — Frank Sonnenberg

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

He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much. — Louise Penny

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

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

I was nice on the inside, but new acquaintances sometimes never stayed around long enough to notice, — John Elder Robison

We're like old acquaintances on trains going in different directions. — Stephen King

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances. — Fanny Burney

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

Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The city's full of people who you just see around. — Terry Pratchett

When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. — Seneca.

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

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

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

We're just ... friends.
No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances ...
OK. Let's face it. It's weird. — Sophie Kinsella

They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer. — Budd Schulberg

He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other. — Peter Hedges

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. — Henrik Ibsen

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

The social norms that sustained them were based neither on ingrained instincts nor on personal acquaintances, but rather on belief in shared myths. — Yuval Noah Harari