A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
~ Alexander Chase

All objects lose by too familiar a view.
~ John Dryden

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
~ William Hazlitt

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
~ Edgar Watson Howe

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
~ Ouida

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
~ Antoine Rivarol

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
~ William Shakespeare

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiarity breeds contempt.
~ Publilius Syrus

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
~ Mark Twain

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
~ Alfred North Whitehead