Acquaintance Quote by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow, Its gloom and scarcity; Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow, Toiled quiet Memory. ’Tis she that from each transient pleasure…

— Charlotte Brontë

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on…

— Oliver Goldsmith

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit…

— Parker J. Palmer

Someone will walk into your life, Leave a footprint on your heart, Turn it into a mudroom cluttered With encrusted boots, children's mittens, Scratchy…

— Patiencebabe

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to…

— Jeremy Taylor

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

— Dorothy Parker

“In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a sudden frosty…

— Truman Capote

For every wound, a balm. For every sorrow, a cheer. For every worry, a calm. For every thirst, a beer.

— Anonymous

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

— Christopher Reeve