#acquaint

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. ↗

— Martha Beck

#acquaintances #almost #case #coffee #elderly

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#borrow #enough #know #lend #person

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ↗

— Ovid

#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#acquaintances #age #because #friends #good

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#deny #his #home #indian #people

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#acquainted #becoming #been #began #bible