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  • 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.

    Smile   Circles   Years  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

    Love   Life   Friendship  
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.
  • Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

    Years   People   Together  
  • 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.

  • Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  • 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.

    Beer   Garden   Glasses  
  • 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.

    Sex   Inferiority   Facts  
    George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.353
  • 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.

    Thinking   People   Doe  
    "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.
  • I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)
  • We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

  • A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4093, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)
  • 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.

    Heart   Hands   Gowns  
  • 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.

    Fall   Love Is   Thinking  
  • We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

    Funny   Two   Complaining  
  • 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.

    Lonely   Simple   Two  
    Deanna Raybourn (2016). “Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 1: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor”, p.156, MIRA
  • Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

    Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta
  • 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.

  • A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

    Friendship   Men   Should  
    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)
  • Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

    "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter II)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.
  • 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, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.348, Cambridge University Press
  • The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

    Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”
  • 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.

    Work   Pride   Mind  
    "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.
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