Familiarity Proverbs

Sayings about Familiarity

Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect.  ~ Nigerien Proverbs  

Character can be built on daily routine.  ~ Japanese Proverbs

No matter how dark it is, the hand always knows the way to the mouth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

 Familiarity is like the sea that kills the fisherman. ~ Ugandan Proverb  

To be drunk every day is also a regular life. ~ Austrian Proverb  

No clock is more regular than the belly. ~ French Proverbs 

Regularity is the best medicine. ~ Indian Proverbs   

Don't worry if people call you ordinary -- only if you are ordinary. ~ Spanish Proverbs


Quotations about Familiarity


Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes? ~ Chris Sacca

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ~ Ouida

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. ~ Charles de Gaulle

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. ~ Alexander Chase

All objects lose by too familiar a view. ~ John Dryden

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. ~ William Bernbach

Few men have been admired by their own households. ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. ~ William Shakespeare

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ~ Honore de Balzac

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. ~ Martin Freeman

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. ~ R. D. Laing

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. ~ Whoopi Goldberg

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ~ William Hazlitt

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. ~ Mark Twain

Fabulous is familiarity. ~ Jillionaire

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~ Oscar Wilde 

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~ George Sand

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interest’s hatreds. ~ Antoine Rivarol

 Normal is not something to aspire to; it's something to get away from. ~ Jodie Foster

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ~ Albert Camus

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. ~ Sigmund Freud

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ~ Gustave Flaubert 


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