There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We have many acquaintances in life, and we quite often think these people are true friends. But friends...real friends are few. Learn… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying… — William James Copy Share Image
“To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even the sociologists… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — Seneca Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else.… — William Herndon Copy Share Image
I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We all have friends, acquaintances, and frienemies. Friends are the ones who are there to support you in your worse of times… — Tammi Post Copy Share Image
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
