Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.


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Familiarity breeds contempt.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Familiarity breeds contempt.
AESOP
Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
MARK TWAIN
Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
MARK TWAIN
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
MARK TWAIN
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children
MARK TWAIN
Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
AMANDA CRAIG
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
MARK TWAIN
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
CHAKA KHAN
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
ROY HATTERSLEY
Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.
MARTY RUBIN
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
PAUL LAZARSFELD
Familiarity used to breed contempt ..... now it just breeds
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds...
YUDHANJAYA WIJERATNE
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
MARTIN FREEMAN
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mat...
JASON ZEBEHAZY
Familiarity breeds content
ANNA QUINDLEN
Familiarity breeds attempt.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE
Familiarity breeds attempt
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE
Familiarity breeds complacency.
RICK WARREN
Familiarity breeds liking.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING
Familiarity breed contempt.
AESOP
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is becau...
MARK TWAIN
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
WILLIAM BERNBACH
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
GEORGE SAND
Admiration and familiarity are strangers
GEORGE SAND
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
TIMOTHY WHITE
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for ...
DEAN INGE
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
MINNA ANTRIM
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal ...
MICHAEL STIPE
And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she ...
MARCEL PROUST
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very q...
STEVEN ERIKSON
In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.
ERALDO BANOVAC
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it ...
J. WILLIAM GALBRAITH
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my con...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my conte...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about s...
JON CROSBY
Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.
FRED C. WHITE
Hate loses while love wins.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO
With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever)...
JANE SMILEY
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
APULEIUS
While it is theoretically possible for one person to have both silicosis and asbestosis, it would be...
JOHN PARKER
While it is theoretically possible for one person to have both silicosis and asbestosis, it would be...
JOHN PARKER
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker,...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
CONFUCIUS
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, whe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, whe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Man breeds money , Money breeds greed and greed breeds more money ... but the irony is neither of th...
HARISH D. WATHORE
Defeat breeds change; change breeds victory.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.
HUBERT GREEN
Defeat breeds change, and change breeds victory.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
It's kind of a rarity in that we only see them briefly while they rest up for their journey northwar...
KRISTIN WOOD
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY ADAMS
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS
Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
WILLEM DAFOE
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY B. ADAMS
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Never think success is for special breeds of humans. Truly success is for ordinary people, who keep ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Defense obviously wins games once in a while. Hopefully we can continue that.
JENNIFER STAFFEY
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
ANDY GROVE
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
VALUE IS THE FINANCIAL EXPRESSION OF RARITY
MARKUS JERGER
It's a rarity, with real historical value.
LOREN ROSS
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
OUIDA
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk witho...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
ANTOINE RIVAROL
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds
ANTOINE RIVAROL
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Familiarity causes diminishing of potentials.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It's a matter of familiarity. Working together, catchers get to know what pitchers like to throw in ...
BRYAN PRICE
There's no question that since (the Bears) have grown up with (the Trojans), ... There's a lot of fa...
JEFF TEDFORD
This year has been far less turnover and it's been smoother. More familiarity. ... Last year we put ...
IAIN BYRNE
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
Accountability breeds response-ability.
STEPHEN COVEY
Success breeds success.
MIA HAMM

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