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

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
Cleveland Abbe

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Meryl Streep

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison