“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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.”
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
Rachel Carson
“Familiarity breed contempt.”
Aesop
