“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
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship”
Oscar Wilde
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend”
Page Smith
“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
“A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.”
Elbert Hubbard
“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 Proverbs
