Familiarity Proverbs
Sayings about Familiarity
Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect. ~ Nigerien Proverbs
Character can be built on daily routine. ~ Japanese 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
Dangers of Familiarity. ~ Book preview