English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Familiar Quotes

Rick Warren quote: "Familiarity breeds complacency."
Familiarity breeds complacency. Rick Warren
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead
Mark Twain quote: "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. Mark Twain
Ouida quote: "Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to..."
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. Ouida
Roy Hattersley quote: "Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. Roy Hattersley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Susie Bright quote: "Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really..."
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good. Susie Bright
Aesop quote: "Familiarity breeds contempt."
Familiarity breeds contempt. Aesop
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. Fred Rogers
Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual. Bertolt Brecht
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell) Elizabeth Gaskell
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort."
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. Nicholas Sparks
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. Walt Whitman
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to... Jack Kerouac

Popular Topics

Popular Author