#acquaint

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#must #name #particular #understand #which

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#contradiction #humor #humor

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority. ↗

— Thomas Cavendish

#authority #honour #men #see #strangers

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

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

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

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#forgive #man #more #never #nodding

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#be real #because #being #careful #close

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy