Familiarity Breeds Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

As soon as they say I don't sound as good as my old stuff, I tell them, "I would never sound as good as I first sounded, because you guys didn't know who I was. Being that I'm in rotation, you guys are getting used to the sound, so now you expect another track and another track, but it never happens again, no matter how hard I try."

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

There is something special about breakfast TV in that people feel like they really know you.

With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.

The seventh year is always a big problem for [political] executives. Programs that were initiated with promise show they have been inadequate or failed. The majesty of the office is diminished by familiarity. People find out you're just like the other guys.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.