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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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