Acquaintance Quotes - Page 4

• In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Numbers, Good Man, Musician

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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

  Design, Enemy, Important

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.76

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• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  Fanny Burney

  Player, Finding The One, Mind

  Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.93

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• The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

  George Catlin

  Hippie, Crow, Friendly

  George Catlin (2015). “The North American Indians Volume 1 of 2: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners and Conditions”, p.53, Digital Scanning Inc

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• She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Sarcastic, Good Friend, Fishing

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• U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Order, Track, Soldier

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Men, World, May

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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• 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 C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Library, Principles

  "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

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• The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

  Eliza Farnham

  Truth, Effort, Mind

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.9

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• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Travel, Journey, Traveling Alone

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• To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dance, Men, Fire

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1696, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Powerful, Study, Promotion

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.13

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• Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Thinking, Dust

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• After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

  Page Smith

  Men, Minutes, Lifelong

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Time

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• It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

  Arthur Miller

  People, Watches, Actors

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  There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

  Bette Davis

  Drinking, Wine, Glasses

  "Fictional character: Kit Marlowe". "Old Acquaintance", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• 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

  Cat, Smell, Watches

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• I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Character, Giving

  Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.7

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• Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

  John Wooden

  Life, Adversity, Men

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.162, B&H Publishing Group

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• Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Agency, Government

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• I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Female, Answers

  Pennsylvania Gazette, 12 Mar. 1732

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• Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

  Mark Twain

  Blood, Stranger, Intimate

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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