#quaint

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#assured #columbia #connection #had #me

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

— Richard Bach

#better #first #friends #know #meet

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#advantage #america #cultures #enough #get

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed. ↗

— Mark Davis

#briefed #defense #either #once #only

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ↗

— George Boole

#affecting #certainty #change #circumstances #demand

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#already #designs #enabled #enemy #federal

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