The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
Elliott Smith

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas Sowell

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Mercy Otis Warren

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann Landers