A Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian - Author
December 17, 1796 - August 27, 1865

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Walter Savage Landor

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

Bob Edwards

A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.

Unknown

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

John Steinbeck

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

A. C. Benson

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

Rachel Cohn

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

Gore Vidal

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.