| "Be neither too remote nor too familiar." »Prince Charles |
| "He who comes first, eats first. familiar as First come first served." »Eike von Repkow |
| "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." »Raymond Lindquist |
| "Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey." »Cynthia Ozick |
| "After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar." »David Assael |
| "Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you." »Saint Francis de Sales |
| "The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous." »Shane Leslie |
| "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen." »Aldous Huxley |
| "One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." »Maxwell Planck |
| "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." »Margaret Mead |
| "An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning." »Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck |
| "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." »Winston Churchill |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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