Best 65 quotes in «acquaintance quotes» category

A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

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.

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.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

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.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

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.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.