#familia

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#even #every #fact #familiar #intolerance

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

My dad once told me that Winstone Churchill said that Russia was riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. According to my dad, Churchill had been talking about my mother. This was before the divorce, and he said it half-bitterly, half-respectfully. Because even when he hated her, he admired her. I think he would have stayed with her forever, trying to figure out the mystery. He was a puzzle solver, the kind of person who likes theorems, theories. X always had to equal something. It couldn't just be X. To me, my mother wasn't that mysterious. She was my mother. Always reasonable, always sure of herself. To me, she was about as mysterious as a glass fo water. She knew what she wanted; she knew what she didn't want. And that was to be married to my father. I wasn't sure if it was that she fell our of love or if it was that she just never was. in love, I mean. ↗

— Jenny Han

#husband-and-wife #mother-and-daughter #p #equality

Familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Aesop

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affects #familiar #familiar things #finding #foreign

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also. ↗

— Chili Davis

#back #familiar #friend #good #his

Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with whom we have familiarity? We hurt, offend and piss off the ones we love the most. Whenever we come home from playing nice and kissing ass instead of lips, we remove the masks and be who we really are. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#family #masks #people #family

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#comedy #disappointment #familiar #far-fetched #nothing

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you. ↗

— James Galway

#been #day #familiar #get #granted