We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend — Page Smith Copy Share Image
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company." "Friend?" he asked. She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Such nights are possible, and we survive them. It is a matter of sleeping next to the adored body you no longer… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought,… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a friend of David Byrne, but I guess I'm an acquaintance. I'm obviously an admirer, and we've met,… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted,… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
