Often Quotes

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.