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Acquaintance Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
- 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…
- Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
- 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,…
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make anew acquaintance.
More Acquaintance Quotes
- If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and… — William Shakespeare
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — 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… — Martha Beck
- Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial… — E. M. Delafield
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent… — George Ade
- 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