Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

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

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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift