Familiar

Famous quotes containing the word familiar:

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.”
—Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)