Quotes with acquaintances

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

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  • Bill Monroe Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald 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
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 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
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Arlene Francis Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Richard Bach Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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