One’s acquaintances may fill the
world, but one’s true friends can be but
few.
— Chinese proverb
A companion loves some agreeable
qualities which a man may possess, but a friend
loves the man himself.
— James Boswell
Let your best be for your friend
. . .
— Kahil Gibran
Drunks do not have friends, but
accomplices.
— Mason Cooley
There are plenty of acquaintances in
the world, but very few real friends.
— Chinese proverb
Go through your phone book, call
people and ask them to drive you to the airport.
The ones who will drive you are your true
friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're
just acquaintances.
— Jay Leno
My mother used to say that there
are no strangers, only friends you haven't met
yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight
home in Australia.
— Dame Edna Everage
If you have one true friend you
have more than your share.
— Thomas Fuller
Don't pity the
girl with one true friend. Envy her. Pity the girl
with just a thousand acquaintances.
— Author Unknown
I may be wrong, but I have never
found deserting friends conciliates enemies.
— Margot Asquith
Acquaintance. A person whom we know
well enough to borrow from, but not well enough
to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
What men have called friendship
is only a social arrangement, a mutual
adjustment of interests, an interchange of
services given and received; it is, in sum,
simply a business from which those involved
propose to derive a steady profit for their own
self-love.
— François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80),
French writer, moralist
Lots of people want to ride with
you in the limo, but what you want is someone
who will take the bus with you when the limo
breaks down.
— Oprah Winfrey
The mere process of growing old
together will make the slightest acquaintance
seem a bosom friend.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Your friends will know you better in
the first minute you meet than your
acquaintances will know you in a thousand
years.
— Richard Bach