An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
~ George Eliot

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
~ Edward M. Forster

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith