The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Stranger. Acquaintance. Buddy. Friend. Best friend forever. Friend. Hardly in touch. Stranger. *Wash. Rinse. Repeat* — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our… — Frank Arthur Swinnerton Copy Share Image
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result… — Moses Harvey Copy Share Image
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
