There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
R. A. Salvatore

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth

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

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White

Appearances are often deceiving.
Aesop

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop