Quotes About Old Acquaintances

#1. I felt a bit like Dante, chancing upon one of his old acquaintances in the nth circle of hell.

Paul Murray

#2. It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#3. We're like old acquaintances on trains going in different directions.

Stephen King

#4. he made a point of never asserting himself when he would gain more by keeping in the background;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Curtis Joseph

#6. Jason you can't control the universe and everything that happens in it, but you can control your reaction to it. You can control you, and how you choose to live each day.

Han Nolan

#7. Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead - still less because one had once liked them very much.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

Samuel Johnson

#9. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Shinzo Abe

#11. Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Justin Cronin