An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
UNKNOWN Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A...
AMBROSE BIERCE We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
SAINT AMBROSE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we l...
MAHATMA GANDHI I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.
LIZZIE ANDREW BORDEN It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
UNKNOWN Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY Those who know me know me well enough to know what I will and will not do. Those who don't obviously...
KASSANDRA CHARBONNEAU None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.
CATHERINE LACEY It does lend itself to a guy who has tremendous quickness and burst. Coles ran it pretty well, too, ...
DON BREAUX Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN We tried to shorten the game up a little bit and do things on the defensive end to keep Davis from d...
JIM LITCHFIELD Luckily, we have had such a good year that I can afford this. I was just not feeling well enough; no...
MARK TAYLOR Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER We are well organized. We've done enough of them to know what we are doing.
CHERYL BAKER All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
ANNA QUINDLEN It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER We played well enough to win, but not well enough to make a statement as we approach the midway part...
ANDREW CSETER I didn't see it well enough to comment. We stay away from judiciary matters.
STEVE NOYCE I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA Overall we played well enough to win last night, but we couldn't keep them from scoring in the final...
JEFF DITTMAN Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In ...
STEVE VAN MATRE Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it...
MAHATMA GANDHI Well, well, it's enough to make the lice drop dead from my head! Condescend to enter the house.
HALLDóR LAXNESS Federated (Department Stores) was below plan. Target was well below plan, ... We have enough data to...
BOB BUCHANAN Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first...
RICHELLE MEAD It wasn't a good offensive night, but we played well enough defensively to win.
JEFF PAFUNDA $9.95 is not trivial. We are aware of that. But I think what we do is special enough to people that ...
BRYAN MILLER I want to get to know this other me, but I don't know her well enough yet to be her all the time
LAURA LEE GULLEDGE Both our opponents packed in a zone defense and we did not shoot the ball well. But we did play well...
BILL EPPERLY To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced...
LEO SZILARD Living is not enough; we must live an illuminated life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We played good tonight. But sometimes in baseball, you play well enough to win but lose.
DAN GAROFANO Neither lend money to a great man nor borrow it from a powerful one.
VIKRANT PARSAI I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no mat...
JENNIFER NIVEN It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE Playoffs are a crapshoot. I don't know if our team is good enough to beat everybody, but we're just ...
BOB SHRADER There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let
well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER It is easy to forget when you borrow money but easy to remember when you lend it.
VIKRANT PARSAI Everyone had a place. Everyone fit. Everyone belonged. Everyone but Anna Mae.
KATHLEEN FULLER Do you not understand?” he whispered. “I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child....
KRISTEN CALLIHAN Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA It is an outrage for someone to solicit funds from well-meaning Americans eager to lend a helping ha...
JAY NIXON We didn't shoot well from the field or the line (Thursday). Our defense played well enough for us to...
LARRY BARBOUR We seem to find a different way to lose every game. We play well enough to win a lot of the time, bu...
JOE MORRELL You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec...
AVA DELLAIRA I get my evaluation daily from the trainer. Who feels what is really beside the point. We're going t...
JON GRUDEN Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
DONALD ERVIN KNUTH There are many ways to get to know someone, and my favorite is seeing them naked in Happy Baby pose....
CHELSEA HANDLER We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
WYNDHAM LEWIS With all the injuries, we still have enough players and a full enough roster that we should be playi...
JUSTIN CHANDLER We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
WALTER CRONKITE It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTES It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTES 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER It would be easy to say that I am disappointed that we did not make it, but frankly, we did not play...
RAJINDER SINGH Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
DONALD KNUTH I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
LULLABY TO AN ANXIOUS CHILD Emerging markets are growing well for them, but not enough to compensate for slowing in the U.S..
JASON MAXWELL When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick ...
MARIO BALOTELLI I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.
DREW POMERANZ We made some mental mistakes in the game, but we played well enough to win it and thank god we were ...
BOB ASMUSSEN Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
UZOMA NNADI Again, we came out hitting very well but we just weren't mentally tough enough to win [the] game.
JANA EPEMA It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
CHARLES DU BOS We haven't been playing extremely well. We're not being disciplined enough. They've got to make bett...
HEATHER SONNE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD We pitched well enough to win tonight. We just didn't score any runs.
MIKE HARGROVE When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to...
BECKY HARROLD 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedant...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Ability doesn't win on the road, toughness does, and we weren't tough enough. We didn't defend the b...
GARY HOLQUIST We do pretty well. A fair amount — enough to keep coming back.
RICHARD BROOKS No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Be soft enough not to break; be kind enough to not get angry.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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