Familiar Quote by Joseph Addison

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

— James Boswell

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his…

— Ernst Mach

“Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.”

— Aimee Bender

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a…

— Joseph Addison

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

— Joseph Addison

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy…

— Joseph Addison

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days…

— George Gissing

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form…

— Samuel Johnson

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

“And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming…

— Rebecca James

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives…

— Samuel L. Jackson