Top 30 Quotes About Acquaintances Vs Friends

#1. Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

Julian Fellowes

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#2. In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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#3. If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#4. I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Charles Bronson

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#5. I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

Macaulay Culkin

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#6. 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

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#7. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#8. Home was this whole perfectly contained universe
town, friends, acquaintances, the streets we traveled every day ... And we were about to leave it all.

Katrina Kenison

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#9. It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.

Leonard Peltier

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#10. It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite ... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.

Arne Garborg

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#11. There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society.

E. Nesbit

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#12. According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

Alafair Burke

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#13. Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#14. The people I mixed with in Monaco didn't relate to my South African mentality or humor ... Although I have met some wonderful people since I've been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

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#15. 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

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#16. Acquaintances are abundant, but friends are the few most valuable gems we hold dear.

J. Hale Turner

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#17. There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet.

Malorie Blackman

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#18. 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

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#19. When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#20. Thus, as I review the list of my friends and acquaintances, most of them emerge as stained with maniac stigmata of one sort or another. I begin to feel considerably reassured. The truth may simply be that human society is no more than a massing of lunatics.

Soseki Natsume

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#21. Discuss with your enemies,
laugh with your acquaintances,
share with your friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#22. 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

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#23. I have, like, two best friends, one that I grew up with who's not an actor, and one that is an actor that lives near me in Wales, and they're my friends. I don't have any other friends, really, in the industry. I have acquaintances and people that I will go out for coffee with.

Craig Roberts

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#24. Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#25. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Arlene Francis

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#26. We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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#27. That was actually my motivation for creating Bigger Leaner Stronger: For many years now, I've had friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers approach me for fitness advice, and they were almost always convinced of many strange, unworkable ideas about diet and exercise.

Michael Matthews

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#28. Those who put you in difficult times are enemies.
Those who forsook you in difficult times are acquaintances.
Those who stood by you in difficult times are friends.
Those who fought for you in difficult times are family.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#29. 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

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#30. You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. - P. 34

Lemony Snicket

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