It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
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.
I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.
If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may. . . become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.
The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Become acquainted with every art.
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.