No Friends Only Acquaintances Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 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