A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
John James Audubon

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.
Marc Davis

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
Donald Cram

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
Marcus V. Pollio

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Maria Monk

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.
Akshay Kumar

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
Mark Shields

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.
William Hamilton Maxwell

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
Henry Lawson

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude Stein

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

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.
John Pople

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil