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Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Aesop
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. -- Mark Twain
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida
Familiarity breeds attempt. -- Jane Ace
Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Aesop
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. -- William Bernbach
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. -- Florence King
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. -- Roy Hattersley
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. -- Charles de Gaulle
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. -- Honore de Balzac
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. -- William Hazlitt
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. -- Antoine Rivarol
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. -- Brian Greene
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. -- Julia Ward Howe
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. -- Mark Twain
Familiarity breeds democracry. -- Florence King
Familiarity breeds complacency. -- Rick Warren
Familiarity breeds contentment. -- George Ade
Familiarity breeds consent. -- Rita Mae Brown
Familiarity breeds attempt -- NA
Familiarity breeds content. -- Anna Quindlen
Familiarity can blind too. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Familiarity gives rise to contempt. -- Aesop
Familiarity seems to breed contempt -- Hunter S. Thompson
Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude. -- Radhanath Swami
Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous. -- Jocelyn Murray
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things. -- Seneca the Younger
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. -- Apuleius
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. -- George Santayana
Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. -- Bill Vaughan
Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust. -- Robert C. Solomon
Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear. -- Todd Stocker
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. -- L. Frank Baum
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good -- Susie Bright
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness -- Marie Louise De La Ramee
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. -- Noel Coward
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds -- Antoine Rivarol
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. -- E. B. White
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. -- William Hazlitt
Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up. -- Karl Hyde
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. -- Laurence Steinberg
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
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
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. -- Herman Melville
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it -- Mark Twain
When your friend becomes a king, treat him first as a king, then let him choose you as a friend. Acting otherwise is suicidal. Familiarity is evil. -- Tylor Ilori
Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone. -- Goodman Ace
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. -- George Sand
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. -- William Shakespeare
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. -- Martin Freeman
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. -- Timothy White
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. -- Joseph Addison
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. -- Patrick Kavanagh
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. -- Nobuo Uematsu
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive. -- David Foster Wallace
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. -- Joseph Joubert
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. -- Saskya Pandita
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. -- Margaret Atwood
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!' -- Steve Carell
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. -- Gavin Newsom
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming -- Scott Baio
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world. -- Tina St. John
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. -- Joseph Addison
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. -- Lord Chesterfield
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible. -- John Burnside
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship. -- Steven Pinker
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. -- Henry Petroski
What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on. -- Marc Jacobs
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. -- James Wolcott
With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves. -- Jane Smiley
Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. -- Jon Crosby
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few -- Benjamin Franklin
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem -- Elizabeth Bowen
Proximity doesn't breed familiarity. -- Maureen Johnson
We also confuse trust with familiarity. -- Robert C. Solomon
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. -- Chaka Khan
advertising produces familiarity which produces sales -- Paul Cookson
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. -- David Whyte
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. -- Nicholas Sparks
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. -- Paul Lazarsfeld
Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you. -- Thomas Pynchon
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity. -- Honore de Balzac
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. -- W. H. Auden
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Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales. -- Jay Conrad Levinson
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown. -- Steven Levenkron
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. -- Stewart Udall
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. -- Erin Morgenstern
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. -- Gertrude Stein
Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. -- Martha Rosler
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. -- Rudolf Arnheim
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... -- Jennifer Weiner
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. -- J. C. Ryle
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. -- Ian Bogost
You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show. -- Alia Shawkat
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever. -- SonReal
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? -- Richard Saul Wurman
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. -- David Foster Wallace
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. -- Debbie Reynolds
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least. -- David Nicholls
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. -- Napoleon Hill
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable. -- Gerry Abbey
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. -- Lord Chesterfield
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. -- Victor Hugo
I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously. -- Feist
I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort. -- Aeriel Miranda
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent. -- Laurie Notaro
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. -- Nicholas Sparks
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. -- Jean de la Bruyere
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. -- Jennifer Tilly
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I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. -- Mario Batali
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. -- Boris Spassky

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