Acquaintance Quotes

299 quotes by 242 authors

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
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
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
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
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
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
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce
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
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. — Charles Bronson
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
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
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis
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
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
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
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
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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