#quaint

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #always #break #disposition #fresh

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#bills #black #cling #cutting #fear

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#close #close friends #count #few #friends

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. ↗

— Arlene Francis

#big #friends #our #pass #sieve

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#friend #hope #pleasant #unsafe

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#acquaintances #cannot #careful #characters #choice

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. ↗

— Garth Hudson

#bar #bars #become #country #fortunately

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. ↗

— David Hume

#additions #been #beginning #century #continual

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#day #every #every day #i #i do

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#evident #expressed #god #laws #less