Acquaintance Quotes

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

True, Words, Friends

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship, Depend, Depth

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

Experience, Wisdom, Old

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce

History, Powerful, Shows

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

Person, Enough, Whom

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

Ignorance, Beginning, Whether

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom, Genius, Moderation

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

Time, Science, Powerful

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

Friend, Hard, Honest

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield

Love, Reason, Distrust

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
Marilyn vos Savant

Good, Able, Three

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

Done, Him, Often

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Edward Koch

Friend, Together, Old

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

Learn, Books, Serve

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

Outside, Interests, Politician

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
E. W. Howe

Woman, Forgive, Nodding

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

Work, Before, Big

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

History, Art, Philosophy

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.
Christiane Amanpour

Joke, Soldiers, Next

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

Girl, Pretty, Her

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

Said, Difficult, Easy

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope, Friend, Pleasant

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
Leland Stanford

Best, Science, Mind

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

Good, High, Playing

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

Peace, Nature, Good

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

Important, Long, Place

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

School, Sometimes, Number

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

Change, Knowledge, Perfect

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

Great, Hat, Einstein

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