Acquainted

Famous quotes containing the word acquainted:

“At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not remember the driver.... Every man to his trade. I am not acquainted with a single horse in the world, not even the one that kicked me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)