Best 65 quotes in «acquaintance quotes» category

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

You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.

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

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

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.

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

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

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

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.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

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.

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

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.

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

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our 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.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.