It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Tom Brokaw

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Linus Torvalds

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
Alan Alda

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Walter Lippmann

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
Stephen Sondheim

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
Edwin Louis Cole

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere