Acquaintance Quotes

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.

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.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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