best quotations about
Familiarity |
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Quotations
 | If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
 | The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | Few men have been admired by their own domestics. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes |
 | Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | All objects lose by too familiar a view. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 3 likes |
 | Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 1 likes |
 | Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
 | The fellow that calls you “brother” usually wants something that doesn't belong to him. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the deepest hatreds. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: routine. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
| A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | A really great writer is one who surprises us by writing something we have always known. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
| True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
| Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
 | The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 1 likes |
 | It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 1 likes |
 | Familiarity can blind too. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
 | They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach, 1936-, American writer 1 likes |
 | There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven't yet met. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Wind extinguishes fire, and familiarity extinguishes love. Το μεν πυρ ο άνεμος, τον δε έρωτα η συνήθεια εκκαίει. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 12 likes |
| Familiarity breeds contempt. 5 likes |
 | Let us get back to our sheep. Revenons à nos moutons. (to what we were doing before) 3 likes |
