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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
A good friend is recognized in times of trouble.
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.
The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
In friendships I had been most fortunate
Yet never saw I one whom I would call
More willingly my friend
What I'd had with most of my school friends hadn't been friendship at all. That had been the habit of the familiar, the reassurance of the unchanged.
Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.
There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.
familiar with most
Today I found an old friend.
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
had become friends and met often
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.
By chance we met, by choice we become friend
I'm a good friend.
That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.
I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know.
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.
Each of us lives and works on a small part of the earth's surface, moves in a small circle, and of these acquaintances knows only a few intimately.
I often get recognized on the street.
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
You can't know people, only their names.
Friendship often grows out of shared experiences
A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
But how do you ever know that you know a person?
There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.
Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
Any friend of my cousin's is a friend of mine, sir. How exactly do you know Lady Zoe?"
Before Tristan could answer, Zoe jumped in. "We met at some party, did we not, Mr. Bonnaud?"
"Yes." Tristan forced a smile. "Clearly a very dull one, since neither of us can remember which one it was.
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Friends are seldom found; they are made.
I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.
I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.
we often meet with those whom we expected never to see more;
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.
Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for.
Show the world with presence, actions & the way you lead your life, who you are.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
I've known you forever, and you are only just remembering me.
Old friends are the best friends.
[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
I have some lifelong friends I grew up with.
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
If you have a book, you have a friend.
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.
I meet a lot of people.
You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the third time you meet them, you're old hats.
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
Old friends are best.
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.
Edward, they might know me. Some people
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.
Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
It is not who you know it is what you know - If you don't know anything, you won't know anyone-- Peter Legge
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don't even know my next-door neighbor's name.
I'm making friends. You wouldn't know anything about that.
I'm somebody that you should know.-- Drake
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.
How can I know you if I don't know myself?-- Lujan Matus
Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, the memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face.
Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity.
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.
I am my nearest neighbour.
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
(T)here are friendships in this world that seem incomprehensible to ordinary people, but are in fact conduits to deeper wisdom and insight.
Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.