“Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.”
― Aaron Tveit
“I don’t really have long days very often.”
― Ad-Rock
“I’ve fallen to make people laugh. Often.”
― Ad-Rock
“Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.”
― Adela Florence Nicolson
“Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.”
― Adrian Tomine
“Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.”
― Aesop
“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
― Aesop
“Appearances are often deceiving.”
― Aesop
“My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.”
― Agnes Varda
“Spoofed robocalls are often used by fraudsters to lure consumers into scams and avoid detection.”
― Ajit Pai
“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.”
― Albert Camus
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.”
― Allan Dwan
“Siblings are often very opposite.”
― Alycia Debnam-Carey
“I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”
― Amelia Earhart
“Romney is not funny. When he tries to be, it often comes across as awkward.”
― Ana Navarro
“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.”
― Andre Gide
“Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.”
― Andrew Cuomo
“Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.”
― Andrew Davies
“Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.”
― Andrew Lloyd Webber
“For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.”
― Angie Everhart
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
― Anthony Powell
“Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.”
― Antisthenes
“I am not often proud.”
― Antoine Arnault
“I’m a friend of Colin Powell. We talk quite often.”
― Ariel Sharon
“To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.”
― Baltasar Gracian
“We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.”
― Baltasar Gracian
“The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.”
― Barry McGuigan
“Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”
― Benjamin Franklin
“The law often allows what honor forbids.”
― Bernard Joseph Saurin
“I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.”
― Bernard Tschumi
“The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.”
― Bernie Sanders
“Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.”
― Bill Dedman
“The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.”
― Bill Flores
“I often say that I inherited the family’s recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.”
― Bill Foster
“I do love the musical form, although it’s often disappointing.”
― Bill Irwin
“Zealots often carry the day.”
― Bobby Ray Inman
“I often work by avoidance.”
― Brian Eno
“One often makes music to supplement one’s world.”
― Brian Eno
“Composers dialogue – and obsessively, bitterly argue – with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.”
― Brian Ferneyhough
“I wasn’t a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.”
― Brigitte Macron
“I’m a size 4. In modeling, that’s often too big.”
― Brooklyn Decker
“Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.”
― Bryant H. McGill
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.”
― Charles Caleb Colton
“Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.”
― Chris Toumazou
“My stories are often a little mysterious.”
― Chris Van Allsburg
“The roughest road often leads to the top.”
― Christina Aguilera
“I’m often lost in my dreams.”
― Christine and the Queens
“I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.”
― Christine Lahti
“I don’t get called very often to play innocents.”
― Christopher Meloni
“I don’t cry often.”
― CL
“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”
― Claude Bernard
“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.”
― Claude Bernard
“One’s performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.”
― Cyril Cusack
“Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.”
― Dakin Matthews
“My story is one of millions, and the others aren’t often told.”
― Dakota Meyer
“I often say, if I wasn’t part of the show I’d be a huge fan of it.”
― Dan Castellaneta
“Progress often masquerades as trouble.”
― Dan Pena
“Our State Department is often wrong and timid.”
― Dana Rohrabacher
“Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it’s perfectly justified.”
― Daniel Pauly
“Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”
― Daniel Webster
“I realize that I’m generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don’t care.”
― Dave Barry
“Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.”
― David Byrne
“Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it’s the opposite.”
― David Grann
“I go with my wife Gill to the supermarket, but not often.”
― David Jason
“I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.”
― David Lowery
“Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren’t true.”
― David Walton
“Often, marriage was solitude, with company.”
― Deb Caletti
“Though I’m Punjabi, I’m often mistaken to be a Mexican or Spaniard.”
― Deep Roy
“Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.”
― Diablo Cody
“Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.”
― Diane Abbott
“Engineers are often defined by their output.”
― Dinesh Paliwal
“Multinational brands, especially those with successful legacies, often struggle in emerging countries.”
― Dinesh Paliwal
“I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.”
― Dwayne Hickman
“Square meals often make round people.”
― E. Joseph Cossman
“Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.”
― Ed Parker
“If you have to forecast, forecast often.”
― Edgar Fiedler
“Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.”
― Edmund Morgan
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Good is often the enemy of best.”
― Edwin Louis Cole
“Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.”
― Elizabeth Drew
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.”
― Elizabeth Drew
“The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.”
― Elizabeth I
“Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism.”
― Elliott Abrams
“U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that’s a false image.”
― Elliott Abrams
“It’s not often that I’m being called femme fatale.”
― Elodie Yung
“Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.”
― Epictetus
“I’m often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The ‘Devil in the White City’ was a fluke.”
― Erik Larson
“I’m often mistaken for a man.”
― Erin O’Connor
“Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.”
― Eugene Ionesco
“Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.”
― Federica Mogherini
“Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.”
― Federica Mogherini
“What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
― Franz Kafka
“Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.”
― Frederic Bastiat
“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I don’t come to London very often.”
― Gail Honeyman
“Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.”
― Gary Herbert
“I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble.”
― Genevieve Padalecki
“The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“American League teams don’t bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.”
― George Brett
“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”
― George Orwell
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
― George Sand
“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
― George Will
“A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.”
― Graham Greene
“Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be.”
― Guy Standing
“Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.”
― Hans Kung
“I don’t often score goals that aren’t with my head!”
― Harry Maguire
“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”
― Harry S Truman
“Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.”
― Helen Wills Moody
“I’m often criticised for what I wear. That’s my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!”
― Helena Bonham Carter
“Of course one should not drink much, but often.”
― Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
“Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.”
― Henry Fielding
“In crises the most daring course is often safest.”
― Henry Kissinger
“Canadians are often a friendly bunch.”
― Henry Rollins
“Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.”
― Henry Rollins
“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”
― Herbert Spencer
“In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don’t often receive invitations.”
― Herta Muller
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
― Honore de Balzac
“We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.”
― Horace
“I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.”
― Howard Hodgkin
“I’m often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.”
― Ian Hislop
“I often don’t read reviews.”
― Ian Mcewan
“It’s not that I can’t be fooled, but I’m not fooled often.”
― Jack Keane
“All too often our leaders shrink from their responsibilities and choose to do what is politically expedient.”
― Jack Schlossberg
“Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn’t one.”
― Jacob Weisberg
“Too often people view idealists as naive.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz
“Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.”
― James Newman
“Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.”
― James Rodriguez
“Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.”
― James Surowiecki
“Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.”
― James Surowiecki
“My characters are often without a significant parental figure.”
― Jamie Bell
“Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.”
― Janet Frame
“I often feel failed by feminism.”
― Janet Mock
“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.”
― Jean de la Bruyere
“One often has need of one, inferior to himself.”
― Jean de La Fontaine
“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Justice in the extreme is often unjust.”
― Jean Racine
“History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.”
― Jeff Vandermeer
“I don’t really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don’t.”
― Jennifer Jason Leigh
“Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.”
― Jerry Brown
“I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.”
― Jerry West
“The source of one’s joy is also often the source of one’s sorrow.”
― Jessamyn West
“I am often criticised for being rather accessible.”
― Joanna Trollope
“Mastery passes often for egotism.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Songs are often character studies.”
― John Darnielle
“So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.”
― John Mason Brown
“Official truths are often powerful illusions.”
― John Pilger
“Jesters do often prove prophets.”
― Joseph Addison
“Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.”
― Joseph B. Wirthlin
“When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.”
― Joseph Stiglitz
“I’m unfortunately very verbose too often.”
― Josh Gad
“Facts are often complicated.”
― Josh Hawley
“For many Americans – many humans – Trump’s presidency can often feel unbearable.”
― Joy Reid
“I don’t collab often.”
― Joyner Lucas
“I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often.”
― Julian Barratt
“The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.”
― Julian Casablancas
“’Easy listening’ is a term that is often used incorrectly.”
― Julian Ovenden
“Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.”
― Karl Abraham
“I don’t listen to my old stuff very often at all.”
― Kate Bush
“I don’t get out to parties often.”
― Kate Bush
“Villains are often attractive.”
― Ken Stott
“When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.”
― Kevin Costner
“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”
― Kin Hubbard
“Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.”
― Kitty Kelley
“I don’t talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.”
― Kobe Bryant
“The things that frustrate one piece of Trump’s coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition.”
― Kristen Soltis Anderson
“Black people are not often considered mainstream.”
― Lamman Rucker
“When I’m in a tricky situation I often think: ‘What would Beyonce do?’ It helps.”
― Laura Carmichael
“One of the best and often overlooked traffic sources online is LinkedIn.”
― Lewis Howes
“We speak often of ‘destroying the planet’ when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.”
― Lionel Shriver
“Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.”
― Lionel Shriver
“I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.”
― Lionel Shriver
“That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.”
― Lupita Nyong’o
“Film can be exciting, but more often, it’s tedious.”
― Mara Wilson
“In a way, the characters often do take over.”
― Margaret Mahy
“When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.”
― Marie Lu
“Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.”
― Mark Parker
“The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.”
― Mark Shields
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
― Mark Twain
“I don’t go to fancy Michelin-starred restaurants often.”
― Mary Berry
“Journalists know that often you don’t grab stories, they grab you.”
― Mary Pilon
“God often gives nuts to toothless people.”
― Matt Groening
“The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles – and they often die very quickly in the script.”
― Max von Sydow
“Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.”
― Michael Pitt
“My template for most songs is ‘Is this inspiring?’ and with the blues it so often is.”
― Mick Fleetwood
“Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.”
― Miep Gies
“Honestly, I don’t go to clubs very often.”
― Mike Posner
“Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.”
― Mira Nair
“I don’t mind nudity; I just don’t do it often.”
― Mischa Barton
“Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.”
― Nancy Astor
“I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.”
― Nancy Grace
“Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.”
― Naomi Alderman
“It’s not very often that I like new bands.”
― Natalie Imbruglia
“I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.”
― Nguyen Cao Ky
“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli
“That’s something that’s so often overlooked in this game – the dynamics of the locker room.”
― Nick Foles
“I don’t cook as often as I would like.”
― Nico Santos
“I don’t cook very often. Actually, I’d go further: I can’t cook.”
― Nicola Sturgeon
“Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.”
― Ninon de L’Enclos
“Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.”
― Nydia Velazquez
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.”
― Otto Hermann Kahn
“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”
― Ovid
“Often, a serial killer has no felony record.”
― Pat Brown
“What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.”
― Patrick Kavanagh
“Startups often have to do dubious things.”
― Paul Graham
“Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.”
― Paul Samuelson
“The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.”
― Paul Theroux
“Politicians often lie.”
― Paul Weyrich
“Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.”
― Periander
“Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.”
― Pete Hoekstra
“The leads are often the boring part.”
― Peter Dinklage
“I often get recognized on the street.”
― PewDiePie
“To be in the right is often an expensive business.”
― Phyllis Bottome
“One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.”
― Pierre Corneille
“One is often guilty by being too just.”
― Pierre Corneille
“In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.”
― Pierre Corneille
“The things that stand out are often the oddities.”
― Pierre Salinger
“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.”
― Plato
“I like Arijit Singh and often listen to his tracks.”
― Prithvi Shaw
“The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.”
― Publilius Syrus
“We die as often as we lose a friend.”
― Publilius Syrus
“I’m often compared to Alan Rickman. I wish.”
― Rhea Seehorn
“The simplest things are often the truest.”
― Richard Bach
“Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.”
― Richard Flanagan
“The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.”
― Richard Grant
“I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.”
― Rita Ora
“Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.”
― Robert Boswell
“Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.”
― Robert Gottlieb
“The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers – the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.”
― Robert Gottlieb
“I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.”
― Robert J. Shiller
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.”
― Robert Sheckley
“We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.”
― Robert Webb
“I don’t think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.”
― Robert Whittaker
“Often, I allow teammates to take my penalties so they can have goals, but no one talks of that.”
― Roberto Baggio
“The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.”
― Roy H. Williams
“All too often, female characters, in particular, aren’t multi-layered enough.”
― Ruth Bradley
“We often fight wars with our young.”
― Ryan Zinke
“Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.”
― Ryoji Noyori
“I don’t often get involved with campaigns at all.”
― Sam Altman
“In the wake of a failed relationship, I’m often flooded with if-onlys.”
― Samin Nosrat
“Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”
― Samuel Butler
“Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.”
― Samuel P. Huntington
“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.”
― Samuel Richardson
“The good mamas are often tough mamas.”
― Sandra Bullock
“Dystopian novels, such as Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.”
― Sarah Hall
“I should get a manicure more often.”
― Savannah Guthrie
“I often criticized what President Bush did, but President Obama is Bush’s spending on steroids.”
― Scott Garrett
“Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.”
― Sergio Aragones
“Politicians don’t say no to cameras very often.”
― Seth Meyers
“Brush your teeth often.”
― Sherry Yard
“I don’t very often read novels.”
― Sidney Poitier
“It’s what people don’t say that is often the most revealing.”
― Sophie B. Hawkins
“Despair often breeds disease.”
― Sophocles
“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.”
― Sophocles
“I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.”
― Stan Lee
“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
― Stendhal
“It’s often said that life is strange. But compared to what?”
― Steve Forbert
“Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.”
― Steven Pinker
“Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.”
― Tadashi Yanai
“My dad is often horrified by what I’ve spent my money on.”
― Tamara Ecclestone
“I often reread books I have written.”
― Taylor Caldwell
“A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.”
― Teju Cole
“Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”
― Terence
“Americans use the word ‘dream’ as often as psychoanalysts do.”
― Terry Eagleton
“I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.”
― Terry Pratchett
“I’m on the university board in Limerick, so I visit the city often.”
― Terry Wogan
“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”
― Theodore Parker
“The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.”
― Thomas Leonard
“Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it’s just proselytising for the theatre.”
― Tim Crouch
“I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.”
― Tiya Sircar
“Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.”
― Tom Perez
“Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.”
― Tom Stoppard
“Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.”
― Tony Campolo
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.”
― W. Averell Harriman
“Often, there’s an emphasis in my work, and it’s sort of the celebrating of the body.”
― Wangechi Mutu
“The most learned are often the most narrow minded.”
― William Hazlitt
“I often conduct interviews in my truck.”
― William Shatner
“Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.”
― Willie Stargell
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
― Winston Churchill
“Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled ‘smoked mozzarella,’ melts fantastically well.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”
― Zadie Smith
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