The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I… — Frank Arthur Swinnerton Copy Share Image
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance… — William Henry Houghton Copy Share Image
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask,… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without… — David Hume Copy Share Image
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy.… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities,… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
