Acquaintance

Famous quotes containing the word acquaintance:

    “The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    “An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination, and a kind of polish to the mind in severer studies.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “... ideals, standards, aspirations,—those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,—often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)