A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham 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
I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will… — Greg Chappell 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
Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau 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
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
