Quotes of: Acquaintance Keyword

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Donald Cram

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

Bill Monroe

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Arlene Francis

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

William Powell

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Indiscretion

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

The Art of War

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Jay Leno

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Oscar Wilde

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

Samuel Johnson

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

John Wooden

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was i...

Jason Wu

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

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

E. B. White

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

Ed Koch

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

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

Leo Ornstein

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

Ambrose Bierce

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce

In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he concea...

Christmas Holiday