(94 quotes found)
“It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.”
Sarah Orne Jewett
“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance”
Samuel Johnson
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.”
Franklin P. Jones
“And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Have but few friends though much acquaintance”
Proverb
“An acquaintance of my husband with a long criminal record and a record of mental illness walked into a pawnshop. It took him about five minutes to purchase a shotgun. He handed it to Kurt on April 6, and on April 7 he was found dead. That's how easy it is.”
Courtney Love
“It's disappointing that Mr. Sizemore has to use my name to sell his DVDs. He is not an acquaintance of mine nor have I ever had intimate relations with him.”
Paris Hilton
“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
