Acquaintance Quotes
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A woman can only become a mans friend in three stages: first, shes an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it.
George Washington
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
Samuel Johnson
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous
Ambrose Bierce
There's not a one of us who has lived for a long stretch of time in the capital, I believe, who has not experienced that awful moment of realization that a friend or acquaintance with some public responsibility is losing the gift of normal discourse. He will have begun to address us over a casual drink or at the supermarket as if he were orating at the United Nations. -- Washington
Meg Greenfield
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
William Shakespeare
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.
John Muir
