Acquaintance Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquaintance Cybersecurity Faithful Faithful friends Friends Friendship Multitudes Security
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's better to have just one trust friends than bunch of so called friends that doesn't acts like it. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
1 loving friend that you can trust is better than 500 friends that you can't trust — Brooklyn Lancaster Copy Share Image
Trusting someone is a key part of having friends. If you want to have friends don't exploit there secrets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish,… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image