You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I never miss Meeting now," I said. "Do not look surprised. I have sent many a prayer heavenward on your behalf. And your father is not home yet. Your uncle sails under more danger of his own making. There is more to living in a town than I knew when you were young. Things have happened. It is important to go and to give to the poor and to keep in good graces with all who know us.""But you always said to trust your own heart.""That is true, son. I do not do this for trickery but to make myself known. If people have your acquaintance and friendship, they are not so quick to believe falsity.

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

A wise man knows everything a shrewd one everybody.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.