Often Quotes

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

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

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.