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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
,
Age
,
Morning
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill
Advice
,
Used
,
Days
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
Good
,
Government
,
Fall
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Success
,
Sense
,
Makes
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Knowledge
,
Science
,
Ignorance
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger
,
Hurtful
,
Injury
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale
Thought
,
Enough
,
Same
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
Maturity
,
Often
,
Youth
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
Food
,
Why
,
Beverage
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams
Reality
,
Guide
,
Definitive
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good
,
Deeds
,
Ashamed
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death
,
Human
,
State
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women
,
Nothing
,
Reputation
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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nature
,
Personal
,
Himself
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke
Men
,
Learned
,
Child
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Lord Acton
Men
,
Power
,
History
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Character
,
Children
,
Parents
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Time
,
Art
,
Beautiful
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Luke Ford
Life
,
Anger
,
Acting
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Great
,
Happen
,
Goal
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois
Men
,
Minds
,
Lives
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie
Life
,
Family
,
Women
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Art
,
Important
,
Pleasure
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
Lord Chesterfield
Advice
,
Used
,
Days
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm
Done
,
Worth
,
Wide
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce
Subject
,
Discussion
,
Animated
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
Men
,
Expect
,
Brilliant
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
James Thurber
Successful
,
Down
,
Dog
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.
Havelock Ellis
Romantic
,
Between
,
Days
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
Feeling
,
Themselves
,
Memory
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