Acquaintance Quotes
299 quotes by 242 authors
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
— Donald Cargill
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
— Arlene Francis
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Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
— Mark Twain
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To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that…
— Michael Jackson
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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