“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Source: The Lucky One
Print over the post stamp "Am Steinernen Meer Salzburg", austrian Post AG (federal postal service), 1. Juli 2003; Austria-Forum. org, Überdruckmarke "Zitat Qualtinger" http://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Briefmarken/2005/%C3%9Cberdruckmarke_-_Zitat_Qualtinger
“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Source: The Lucky One
“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
"Black Matters" in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
In this work are exhibited in a very high degree the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ~ Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Lives of the English Poets (1781) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvpc10.txt <br class="br">Misattributed
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Familiarity breeds complacency.”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
Aesop book The Fox and the Lion
The Fox and the Lion.
Variant: Acquaintance softens prejudices.