Often Quotes

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.