“To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near, and to record in details with the eyes of a child, any beauty, horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell.”
Dan Eldon
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
Michael Oakeshott
“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition”
W. H. Auden
“In the near-term, the market would prefer a Bush victory because he is familiar and represents lower taxation on equities,”
Chip Dickson
“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children”
Mark Twain
“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.”
