Familiarity Quotes

210 quotes by 185 authors

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. — Joseph Addison
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Familiar things are a comfort to us all. — Andy Rooney
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. — William Shakespeare
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… — Lord Chesterfield
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon… — Albert Camus
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me… — Ronald Reagan
When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him,… — James Boswell
Familiarity breeds contentment. — George Ade
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. — Rudolf Arnheim
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. — Nobuo Uematsu
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable. — Archibald Rutledge
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. — David Foster Wallace
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV! — Steve Carell
We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how… — Tom Freston
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's… — Sara Zarr
With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away.… — Dean Ornish
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly… — Wyndham Lewis
The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they made to her… — Peter Julian Eymard

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