To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

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

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou