Often Quotes

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin

Truth, Lie, Enough

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

Shocked, Easily

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

Music, Heart, Sick

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Men, Far, Heaven

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

Success, Failure, Achieved

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

Successful, Thinking, Voice

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

Love, Silence, Words

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Change, Self, Needed

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

Best, Person, Learned

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith

Marriage, Moving, Cannot

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Everything, Impossible

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
Will Smith

Old, Used, Word

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society, Others, Talk

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Heart, Pretty

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

Business, Nice, Person

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

May, Said, Benefit

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

Maturity, Youth, Absurd

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius

Education, Natural, Ability

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael Jackson

Love, Work, Family

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

Education, Today, Giving

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

Quote

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker

Judgment, Fails, Inward

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson

Work, Men, Hard

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Moral, Worst

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

War, Art, Enemy

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Greatest, After

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Design, Yourself, Practice

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Saint Francis de Sales

Good, Spiritual, Help

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton

Watch, Cynical, Lack

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard

Learning, Prevents

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