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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Children, Contempt

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Home, Courage, Fear

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam

Success, Work, Bitterness

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Patriotism, Nation, Nations

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis

Government, Law, Become

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

Travel, Human, Stars

National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Hubert H. Humphrey

National, Isolation, Neurosis

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

Mind, Water, Opinions

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Energy, Eternal, Desires

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Life, Music, Death

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot

Sense, Hatred, Injury

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
Paul Ryan

Capitalism, Economics, Corrupt

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome

Thoughts, Fat, Fine

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

Knowledge, Science, Ignorance

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

Success, Work, Goal

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward

Humanity, Makes, Either

Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles

Often, Despair, Disease

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams

Life, Often, Order

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Dionne Warwick

Woman, Understand, Water

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
Marilyn vos Savant

Able, Common, Cats

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Publilius Syrus

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove

Success, Failure, Paranoid

Success breeds success.
Mia Hamm

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle

Mystery, Contempt, Prestige

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Great, Design, Often

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille

Best, Confidence, Danger

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.
Jon Crosby

Nothing, Saying, Through

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
James Galway

Through, Boredom, Running

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