Acquaintance Quotes

299 quotes by 236 authors

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be… — Julian Fellowes
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought… — Hans Zinsser
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the… — Irvin S. Cobb
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there… — Penelope Fitzgerald
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those… — Terry Eagleton
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some… — William Hague
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of… — Michel de Montaigne
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases — Samuel Johnson
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past;… — Julian Simon
Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that… — Luther Burbank
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,… — Samuel Johnson
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it… — John Muir
Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him ... a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ... The Bible calls… — Hal Lindsey
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem… — Sarah Orne Jewett
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new… — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. — Charles Caleb Colton
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends.… — Macaulay Culkin

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