Acquaintance Quotes

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

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

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.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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!

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

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

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

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

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