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often Quotes
- A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil - but it needs a little mulch of...
- A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances...
- A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery...
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts...
- A short saying often contains much wisdom. ...
- A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. ...
- A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who...
- A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something. ...
- All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street...
- All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...
- All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...
- All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is...
- All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection...
- An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we...
- Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them...
- Appearances often are deceiving. ...
- Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn...
- Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ...
- Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ...
- Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there...
- Common sense often makes good law. ...
- Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often...
- Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in...
- Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes...
- Death is as casual - and often as unexpected - as birth. It is as difficult to define grief...
- Deliberate often - decide once. ...
- Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. ...
- Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter...
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply...
- Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just...
- Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues,...
- False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if...
- Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays...
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled...
- Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ...
- Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ...
- Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ...
- Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. ...
- Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. ...
- God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work...
- Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ...
- Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer...
- Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ...
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults...
- Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring....
- He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always...
- He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ...
- He who believes he is deceiving others often deceives himself. ...
- He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. ...
- History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many...
- How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often...
- How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ...
- How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their...
- I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose...
- I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that...
- I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of...
- I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against...
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given...
- I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. ...
- I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have...
- I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and...
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men,...
- I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the...
- I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts....
- I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. ...
- If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss....
- If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even...
- If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right...
- If you don't ask why this? often enough, somebody will ask why you? ...
- If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. ...
- Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ...
- I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. ...
- I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often...
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ...
- In crises the most daring course is often safest. ...
- In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other...
- Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. ...
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. ...
- It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often...
- It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it...
- It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but,...
- It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ...
- It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. ...
- It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of...
- It was from an old friend who … thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues...
- It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues...
- It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get...
- I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show...
- I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience....
- Jesters do often prove prophets. ...
- Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that....
- Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that....
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had...
- Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches...
- Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ...
- Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when...
- Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. ...
- Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can...
- Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you…. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and...
- Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet...
- Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth,...
- Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing. ...
- Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may...
- Money often costs too much. ...
- Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often...
- Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often...
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability....
- Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and...
- Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of...
- No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others. ...
- Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes...
- Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. ...
- Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. ...
- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order...
- Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only...
- Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things...
- Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ...
- Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ...
- One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ...
- One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ...
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a...
- One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. ...
- Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. ...
- Opportunity often comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. ...
- Our ego is our silent partner - too often with a controlling interest. ...
- Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells...
- Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. ...
- Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from...
- People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful...
- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something...
- People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... And we wish you Godspeed. It...
- Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is...
- Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear....
- Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. ...
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ...
- Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ...
- Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. ...
- Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature … Avoiding danger is no safer in the long...
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ...
- Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and...
- Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit,...
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never....
- Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. ...
- Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change...
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next....
- The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy...
- The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of...
- The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as...
- The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ...
- The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it...
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ...
- The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. ...
- The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake... ...
- The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; Whereas the...
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but...
- The greatest power is often simple patience. ...
- The impossible is often the untried. ...
- The impossible is often the untried. ...
- The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke. ...
- The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect...
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole...
- The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent...
- The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ...
- The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over...
- The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours. ...
- The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself...
- The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...
- The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the...
- There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we...
- There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get...
- Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them...
- Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine...
- To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to...
- To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. ...
- To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ...
- Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. ...
- Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ...
- Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ...
- Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ...
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest...
- Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ...
- Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. ...
- True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is...
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents. ...
- Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ...
- Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ...
- Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ...
- We can often tell by a man's walk whose son he is, and we should walk so that men...
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out...
- We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily...
- We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely...
- We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made...
- We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. ...
- We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ...
- Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has...
- What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ...
- What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ...
- What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. ...
- What should we emphasize in our teaching? We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored...
- Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You...
- When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I...
- When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep...
- When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the...
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that...
- When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. ...
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that...
- When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place. ...
- When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. ...
- While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ...
- Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ...
- Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ...
- Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ...
- You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. ...
- You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves...
- You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing...
- Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with...
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