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"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new Acquaintance." »Samuel Johnson
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"Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of Acquaintance." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your Acquaintance will in a thousand years." »Unknown
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"Without an Acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established." »Confucius
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an Acquaintance, or a stranger." »Franklin P. Jones
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"The beginning of an Acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance." »George Eliot
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an Acquaintance or a stranger." »Franklin P. Jones
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"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest Acquaintance seem a bosom friend." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding Acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." »Kenneth Williams
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"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, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old Acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are." »Penelope Fitzgerald
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"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my Acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout." »Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the Acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the Acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal Acquaintance." »Niccola Sebastiani
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"Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and Acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin
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