George Washington Quotes

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it's not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it's an unhealthy connection.

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

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.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Honestly, I usually have way more guy friends than girlfriends.

Although I've got lots of pals in showbiz, I haven't got that many close friends.

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with.

There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.

No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.

Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I'm just Ken.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue