I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your friend has no speck… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not… — Henrik Ibsen 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne 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
“Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“For me, there are distinct levels of friendship: BEST FRIEND: An extremely close individual you can do anything with, talk about everything… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
