Acquaintance Quotes

299 Acquaintance quotes by 236 unique authors

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature… — Unknown Author
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. — Robert Breault
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance… — Erich Fromm
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether… — Benjamin Franklin
Acquaintance softens prejudice. — Aesop
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art,… — William Saroyan
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. — Mojo Nixon
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are… — Erik Qualman
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

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