“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance”
Charles Caleb Colton
“EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. --Joel Frad Bink”
Ambrose Bierce
“Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“My time was free during the week between the two concerts [in 1895]. I met this eccentric genius whose acquaintance I kept although I saw him only seldom.”
Harold Bauer
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship”
Oscar Wilde
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend”
Page Smith
