(167 quotes found)
“Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”
Titus Maccius Plautus
“HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.”
William Manchester
“When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”
Juvenal
“Therefore I say, 'Even though my guru frequents a grog-shop, still to me he is the embodiment of Eternal Bliss.' All want to be the guru, but very few indeed want to be a disciple.”
Ramakrishna
“Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.”
“The shooting has taken place in an area frequented by the Tigers.”
Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe
“Because his district is rather spread out and he frequently takes a lot of staff with him, this is the vehicle he's used for some time.”
Burson Taylor
“The hard drives in our blades were frequently burning out.”
Arty Ecock
