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 5 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 3 likes |
 | Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 3 likes |
 | Few men have been admired by their own domestics. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
 | Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | All objects lose by too familiar a view. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 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. |
 | Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. |
 | The fellow that calls you “brother” usually wants something that doesn't belong to him. |
 | Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the deepest hatreds. |
 | Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: routine. |
| A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. |
 | A really great writer is one who surprises us by writing something we have always known. |
 | Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies. |
| 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. |
 | Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. |
 | There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. |
| Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. |
 | The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. |
 | It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Familiarity can blind too. |
 | They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. |
 | Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. |
 | There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven't yet met. |
Proverbs
 | Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 9 likes |
| Familiarity breeds contempt. 4 likes |
 | Let us get back to our sheep. Revenons à nos moutons. (to what we were doing before) 2 likes |
