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.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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.
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.
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.
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
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.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards
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.
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
