Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night... and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually… — Marshall Ramsay 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
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
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
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of… — Alain de Botton 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
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a… — William Saroyan 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
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
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
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
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
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
An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his… — Bernardino Ramazzini 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
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
