We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller 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
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
“...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
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
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
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
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
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
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and… — John Muir 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
My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell 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
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
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
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
There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
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
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
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
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
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
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we… — George Washington 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
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
“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.” — Dr Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
