Acquaintance Quotes & Sayings

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~ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ~

Anna Garlin Spencer

~ Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

Anna Garlin Spencer

~ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ~

Franklin P. Jones

~ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~

Franklin P. Jones

~ Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~

Henrik Ibsen

~ A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water. ~

Bob Ryan

~ Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything. ~

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

~ Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

~ An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship ~

Oscar Wilde

~ A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends. ~

Chinese Proverb

~ A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends. ~

Chinese Proverb

~ Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. ~

Logan Pearsall Smith

~ Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ 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 Talleyrand

~ A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it. ~

George Washington

~ Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance. ~

Plato

~ Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. ~

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

~ Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ 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

~ People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. ~

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

~ Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ~

George Eliot

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