Frequently Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.