I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.

What is meant by a “knowledge of the world” is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Sometimes you’ll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your friend has no speck there after all the suspicions. You got to see before you judge!

I believe … that Andrew Cunanan did have the acquaintance of Gianni Versace, … I don’t believe they were lovers, but I believe they were in the same place at the same time and that...

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when...

I never miss Meeting now,” I said. “Do not look surprised. I have sent many a prayer heavenward on your behalf. And your father is not home yet. Your uncle sails under more danger of...

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future....

EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,...