Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends... — Grace Kelly 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 look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum 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
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov 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
“...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
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from… — Plato Copy Share Image
While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are friends and there are acquaintances. Friends are the people you can depend on, there for you, that you can count… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's… — Lord Chesterfield 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
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe… — Mark Twain 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
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
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
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
A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore 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
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a… — Steven Pressfield 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
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
