Best 65 quotes in «acquaintance quotes» category

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

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

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

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

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.

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.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

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.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

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

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I'd rather be a nodding acquaintance, than a bobble head

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your friend has no speck there after all the suspicions. You got to see before you judge!

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

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.

Lonely girls and women need not very gently flashing pink light, small pendant speaking of the fact that it is free and is looking for a boyfriend or husband. Similarly pendant want boys and men who are looking for a girlfriend or wife.

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

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

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.

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

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

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

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.

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

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

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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