Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour

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

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.
Conan O'Brien