Acquaintance Quotes - Page 11

• I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

  Frances Trollope

  Pigs, Sausage, Draws

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• Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

  Elsa Triolet

  Circles, Tolerance

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• Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Education, College, House

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• The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.

  George Eliot

  Grief, New Beginnings, Each Day

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.348, Cambridge University Press

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• The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

  Humphry Davy

  Friends, Life Is, Ideal Life

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• I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

  Abigail McCarthy

  Friendship, Real, Thinking

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• Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Father, Dark, White

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.376, Penguin

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• "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

  Charles Dickens

  Jobs, Character, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.333

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• There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

  Herbert Spencer

  Clear Head, Law, Practice

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.9

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• The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Acquisition, One Thing

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• In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Foundation, Too Much, Losing

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.24

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• We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span - in their protoplasmic continuities - the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.

  Hans Zinsser

  Writing, Fate, Men

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.6, Transaction Publishers

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• Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Cities, San Francisco, Friendly

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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

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Philosophy, Literature

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Science, Circles

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• Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

  Mojo Nixon

  Stage

  Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

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• With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Wish, News

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• People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  People, Prejudice, Nations

  PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”

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• Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sight, Doors, Grace

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1889). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and His Journey Through Germany and Italy ; Together with a Comprehensive Life and Side and Foot Notes from All the Commentators, Fully Explanatory of the Text ; Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc., Etc”

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• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

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• Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.

  Luther Burbank

  Knowledge, Science, Boys

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• Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him - a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.

  Hal Lindsey

  Leader, World, Figures

  "How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist". www.wnd.com. August 1, 2008.

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