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  • Acquaintance lessens fame. -- Claudius
  • Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. -- George Washington
  • The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. -- Laurence Sterne
  • When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous! -- Wally Schirra
  • The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. -- Kenneth Grahame
  • Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy. -- Belle Boyd
  • Acquaintance softens prejudice. -- Aesop
  • Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. -- Abraham Cowley
  • The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  • It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. -- Arthur Miller
  • Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established -- Confucius
  • Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. -- Arlene Francis
  • 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
  • Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -- Richard Bach
  • 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
  • Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. -- Lydia M. Child
  • Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year. -- Bill Monroe
  • There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. -- Jello Biafra
  • In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. -- James Weldon Johnson
  • I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. -- Albert J. Nock
  • Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. -- Georg Brandes
  • We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances. -- Leah Ward Sears
  • Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. -- William Dunbar
  • For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. -- Fanny Burney
  • It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us. -- Alain de Botton
  • If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man -- Edgar Watson Howe
  • Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. -- Franklin P. Jones
  • I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. -- Samuel Johnson
  • The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. -- George Eliot
  • The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. -- Kenneth Williams
  • Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. -- James Prescott Joule
  • The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly. -- George Catlin
  • The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the third time you meet them, you're old hats. -- Kathryn Minshew
  • 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 who study in arts faculties. -- Terry Eagleton
  • There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. -- Gregory Peck
  • A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. -- Charles Babbage
  • Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. -- George Boole
  • There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. -- Elihu Root
  • When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. -- Kim Edwards
  • Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases -- Samuel Johnson
  • Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship -- Anne Bronte
  • The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance. -- Francis of Assisi
  • Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. -- Robert Breault
  • Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? -- Robert Burns
  • First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. -- N. T. Wright
  • A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  • Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance"?a frequaintance, as it were. -- Rachel Cohn
  • The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  • A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
  • [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.. -- Jane Austen
  • I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. -- Jonathan Swift
  • The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. -- John Steinbeck
  • An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. -- Oscar Wilde
  • There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  • New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. -- Jay Leno
  • A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. -- E. W. Howe
  • One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. -- Mark Twain
  • Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.... -- Bob Edwards
  • The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. -- Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. -- Mark Twain
  • Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! -- William Shakespeare
  • The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. -- Kenneth Williams
  • Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance. -- David Eagleman
  • After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend -- Page Smith
  • In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from. -- Frank Zappa
  • Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it. -- Fanny Burney
  • Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits. -- E. M. Delafield
  • Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance. -- Frank Arthur Swinnerton
  • Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. -- Anatoly Karpov
  • Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god. -- Nick Davies
  • The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance. -- Fanny Fern
  • I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage. -- Frances Trollope
  • If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it. -- William Henry Houghton
  • A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. -- Truman Capote
  • He picked some unwise words. Saying, â??Iâ??ll enjoy killing you for my lordâ?, is just not the way to make my acquaintance. -- Charlaine Harris
  • 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
  • Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. -- R. A. Torrey
  • Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions. -- Jay Kesler
  • I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. -- Maria Monk
  • Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?' -- Gina Barreca
  • It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance. -- Jeremy Collier
  • He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. -- Elizabeth Strout
  • I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage. -- R. S. Thomas
  • The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true. -- Frank Arthur Swinnerton
  • We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths. -- Bertrand Russell
  • 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 outside interests gives. -- William Hague
  • I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will be good to renew the acquaintance. -- Greg Chappell
  • "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..." -- Charles Dickens
  • Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. -- Walter Scott
  • Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. -- George Eliot
  • I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. -- Henry David Thoreau
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