“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
“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.”
William S. Gilbert
“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
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
