Acquaintance

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

- Marilyn vos Savant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

- Jane Smiley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.

- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallacious for, as Sir Sycophas Chrysolater in the play has justly remarked, the true use and function of property (in whatsoever it consisteth --coins, or land, or houses, or merchant- stuff, or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own subservience) as also of honors, titles, preferments and place, and all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but to get money. Hence it followeth that all things are truly to be rated as of worth in measure of their serviceableness to that end and their possessors should take rank in agreement thereto, neither the lord of an unproducing manor, howsoever broad and ancient, nor he who bears an unremunerate dignity, nor yet the pauper favorite of a king, being esteemed of level excellency with him whose riches are of daily accretion and hardly should they whose wealth is barren claim and rightly take more honor than the poor and unworthy.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

- G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

- Kenneth Grahame Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One of the committee members had an acquaintance down there, so we had our end destination pretty quickly. The committee felt it would mean more if we could pick an area that really needed it. 75 percent of the people in Pass Christian lost everything. Based on the size, it was a community we knew we could have a great impact on.

- Larry Bowman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Honor and shame from no condition rise Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

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I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.

- Henry St. John Bolingbroke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Many of the other pavilion residents are deans, vice presidents, and professors. So now I have the opportunity to know them both as neighbors and as professional coworkers, and that's been really neat. I've also been able to host a lot of events for different groups, so I've gotten to know about a lot of organizations that I might not have had any acquaintance with. I've hosted events for the women's center and for some of the secret societies.

- Jeanette Lancaster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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Honour and shame from no condition rise Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

- Alexander Pope Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill.

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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

- George Washington Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

- Albert J. Nock Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One hundred and five out of 107 reported rapes on campus last year were acquaintance rapes, with victims knowing the rapist for a year or more.

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