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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
View quotes by Peter F Drucker

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript. (On Charles Lamb)
View quotes by William Hazlitt

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
View quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.
View quotes by William Shenstone

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
View quotes by Bob Hope

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
View quotes by William Penn

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
View quotes by J R R Tolkien

[on understanding] The definition is this: to understand something is to know what it means, to know what its significance is. To understand a sentence is to know what it means, to understand a language is to know what its words and sentences mean, to understand a phenomenon more generally is to know its significance.
View quotes by Tim Crane

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
View quotes by Lord Byron

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
View quotes by Elizabeth Taylor

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
View quotes by Susan Sontag

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
View quotes by Samuel Smiles

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
View quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
View quotes by John Gay

Travelling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
View quotes by John Stuart Mill

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

View quotes by John Stuart Mill

Descended from the apes? Let us hope that it is not true. But if it is, let us pray that it may not become generally known.
View quotes by F A Montagu



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