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«Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.»
«Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances»
«A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.»
«Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
acquaintances, airport, go through, phone, phone book, phone call, the Airport
«I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accord, acquaintances, based on, fingering, harmony, impersonal, in truth, personality, personal relation, Personal relations, purely, qualities, relations, roots, The Roots, tree of life, unanimous, wearies, weariest, weary, wearying
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Choice
| Keywords:
acquaintances, better-looking, careful, characters, choice, enemies, Friends for, good looks, intellects, looks, too-careful
«Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing:The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Imagination,
Universe
| Keywords:
acquaintances, imagined, quite a
«If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.»
«Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
acquaintances, ends, End of time, everywhere, foreign, from nowhere, nowhere, spends, travel
«In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
acquaintances, addition, additions, confidant, confidants, depression, faithful, intimate, in addition, mistress, mistresses, numerous, the Depression
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