Familiar Quotes

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Ernest Renan)
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. View quote
Lin Yutang
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. (Charles Lamb)
Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. View quote
Toni Morrison
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. View quote
Elihu Root
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. View quote
Joseph Addison
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. View quote
Roger Ebert
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. (Jeanette Winterson)
I was familiar with that and "Rio Bravo.” "Rio Bravo” was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. View quote
John Leguizamo
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. View quote
Leo Burnett
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. View quote
William Wordsworth
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. View quote
Winston Churchill