Familiar

Famous quotes containing the word familiar:

“Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Here may I not ask you to carry those inscriptions that now hang on the walls into your homes, into the schools of your city, into all of your great institutions where children are gathered, and teach them that the eye of the young and the old should look upon that flag as one of the familiar glories of every American?”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

“The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)