If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Friend are hard to come by so until than everyone around me is an acquaintance until proven otherwise … protect yourself cause… — Myself Copy Share Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain 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
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
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
When we were not shooting [The Hangover] we were sleeping, so pretty much every waking moment we spent together. And, you know,… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of people, in need of our attention, who have very little with which to repay us. But I feel… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I love to be loved. Whether it is by a significant other or an acquaintance, I get it. — Luke James Copy Share Image
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another one will remain an acquaintance… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Acquaintances may come and go, as Friends may come and stay. However, true friends will never leave your side or ever fade… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image