Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
Larry David

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
Karl Rahner

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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
David Bowie

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

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.
Charles Horton Cooley

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
Jim Cramer