The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count… — Calista Flockhart Copy Share Image
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give… — George Horne Copy Share Image
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We have many acquaintances in life, and we quite often think these people are true friends. But friends...real friends are few. Learn… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole Copy Share Image
the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
