If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Understanding the difference between a friend and an acquaintance is easy. Accepting the truth about who's who can be the hard part — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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