Acquaintance Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• William Shakespeare
• Oscar Wilde
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Vincent van Gogh
• Angela Merkel
• Zig Ziglar
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• George Carlin
• Leo Tolstoy
• Charles Darwin

• The more acquaintances, the more danger.

  Topics in American Proverbs

  Tags in Acquaintance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acquaintance, Independence

• Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

  Belle Boyd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acquaintance

• Acquaintance lessens fame.

  Claudius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acquaintance

• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  Donald Cargill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Praying, Acquaintance

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in I Do, Acquaintance, Every Day

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Nature, Acquaintance

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

  William Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solitude, Acquaintance

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

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slightest, Acquaintance, Friend

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

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acquaintance, Beginning

• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times – and this is the worst of all – before we have new ones.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Acquaintance, Libraries

• The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Acquaintance

• The more acquaintance, the more danger.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Acquaintance

• Short acquaintance brings repentance.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Repentance, Acquaintance

• A poor man has few acquaintances.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Acquaintance, Few, Poor Man

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exists, Duties, Benefited, Acquaintance

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in History

  Tags in Nations, Unscrupulous, Republics, Powerful, Acquaintance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acquaintance, People, Book

• Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ lang syne?

  Robert Burns

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Acquaintance, Forget

• If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

  Alexander Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acquaintance