An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. — George Eliot
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know. — Colleen Hoover
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. — Will Rogers
You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold. — Kassia
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. — Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. — Anais Nin
Make new friends, but don’t forget the old ones. — Yiddish Proverbs
To keep a new friend, never break with the old. — Proverbs
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. — Jaron Lanier
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. — Mary Tyler Moore
There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet. — Dave Thomas
An old friend is better than two new friends. — Russian Proverbs
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Logan Pearsall Smith
One old friend is better than two new ones. — Yiddish Proverbs
New Acquaintance Image Quotes
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Good Acquaintance Quotes
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate. — Horatius Bonar
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. — George Washington
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
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
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn vos Savant
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
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
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
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful? — Howard Gardner
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
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle
Acquaintance Quotes
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. — Leon Trotsky
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". — John Muir
Better the devil you know than the angel you don't. — Hama Tuma
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis De Sade
The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life. — Shoghi Effendi
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Friend Or Acquaintance Quotes
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. — Ian Somerhalder
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
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
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. — Franklin P. Jones
My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of. — C. S. Lewis
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant. — Sayings
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences. — Abigail McCarthy
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
New Friendship Quotes
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change — Richard G. Scott
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? — Robert Burns
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you — Drake
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. — A. A. Milne
It's friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run. — James Clear
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. — Markus Zusak
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. — Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them. — Bill Murray
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. — Li Peng
Old Acquaintance Quotes
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. — Henry David Thoreau
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. — Samuel Johnson
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever. — George Eliot
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. — Jay Leno
Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome. — Charles MacKay
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. — Logan Pearsall Smith
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are. — Penelope Fitzgerald
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo. — Harry S Truman
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. — Seneca
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. — Samuel Johnson
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. — Richard V. Allen
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going. — John Muir
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. — George Eliot
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. — Robert Burns
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson
I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life. — Anna Brownell Jameson
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out. — Sarah Orne Jewett
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time. — John Stuart Mill
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist. — John Burroughs
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. — Havelock Ellis
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect. — Anuj
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice. — Honore de Balzac
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief. — George Eliot
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances. — Fanny Burney
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli
A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you. — Jacqueline Susann
A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership. — Charles Duhigg
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. — Emile M. Cioran
To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect. — Michael Jackson
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off. — Susan Cain
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity. — Susan Cain
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
She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance. — Deanna Raybourn
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. — E. M. Forster
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within. — C. S. Lewis
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York. — Sigourney Weaver
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