“ Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. ”
- Antoine Rivarol- Copy
- 3K
“ Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It's disappointing that Mr. Sizemore has to use my name to sell his DVDs. He is not an acquaintance of mine nor have I ever had intimate relations with him. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 3.6K
“ He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 501
“ Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ”
- Ouida- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 190
“ Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 589
“ 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 at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 2.3K
“ She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. ”
- Anne Edwards- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
- 328
“ Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 440
“ The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. ”
- Arthur Helps- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. ”
- Alexander Chase- Copy
- 1.8K
“ An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it. ”
- Karel Capek- Copy
- 2.8K
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