Change generally pleases the rich. [ Horace ]
Time is generally the best doctor. [ Ovid ]
Quick wits are generally conceited. [ Proverb ]
Covetousness is generally incurable. [ Proverb ]
Chance generally favors the prudent. [ Joubert ]
Time is generally the best medicine. [ Ovid ]
Desperate evils generally make men safe. [ Seneca ]
Perseverance and audacity generally win. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Weak men and cowards are generally wily. [ Proverb ]
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers. [ Swift ]
Custom is generally too hard for conscience. [ Proverb ]
Women, when offended, are generally implacable.
Men generally look more upon decency than virtue. [ Proverb ]
Reason can generally effect more than blind force. [ Gallus ]
Offenses generally outweigh merits with great men. [ Proverb ]
Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. [ Laberius ]
Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others. [ Proverb ]
Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all. [ Laurence Sterne ]
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. [ Rochefoucauld ]
See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. [ Goldsmith ]
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. [ Boileau ]
Discontents generally arise from our desires more than our wants. [ Proverb ]
Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils. [ Goethe ]
Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else. [ South ]
Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool. [ Thomas Fuller ]
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. [ Quintilian ]
Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship. [ Hor. Smith ]
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart. [ Fielding ]
Necessity may be a hard schoolmistress, but she is generally found the best. [ Smiles ]
Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest. [ Mme. de Staël ]
It is not the disease but neglect of the remedy which generally destroys life. [ From the Latin ]
Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. [ Byron ]
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. [ Montaigne ]
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. [ Rousseau ]
A man's opinions, look you, are generally of much more value than his arguments. [ Holmes ]
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. [ Stanislaus ]
He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. [ Phaedr ]
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. [ Blair ]
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. [ Disraeli ]
Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. [ Bacon ]
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display. [ Jean Ingelow ]
An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. [ Chatfield ]
I have generally found that the man who is good at an excuse is good for nothing else. [ Franklin ]
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. [ Rousseau ]
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Beauties, whether male or female, are generally the most untractable people of all others. [ Steele ]
Upon the common course of life must our thoughts and our conversation be generally employed. [ Johnson ]
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. [ Johnson ]
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing. [ Goldsmith ]
Happiness generally depends more on the opinion we have of things, than on the things themselves. [ Proverb ]
Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Men of limited intelligence generally condemn everything that is above their power of understanding. [ La Roche ]
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones. [ Bacon ]
If, of all vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men. [ Helvetius ]
To be rational is so glorious a thing that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. [ Locke ]
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. [ Otway ]
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves. [ Beaconsfield ]
Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. [ Diogenes ]
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with, the echoes of the heart. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. [ La Roche ]
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom. [ Macaulay ]
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. [ Chesterfield ]
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. [ Chapin ]
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremoney are two things. [ Marcus Antonius ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas. [ Macaulay ]
Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand. [ Hawthorne ]
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. [ Bacon ]
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants - both know too much of him. [ Colton ]
Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed. [ South ]
Among the minor virtues, cleanliness ought to be conspicuously ranked; and in the common topics of praise we generally arrange some commendation of neatness. [ J. Dennie ]
I believe one reason why women are generally so much more cheerful than men is because they can work with the needle, and so endlessly vary their employment. [ Sydney Smith ]
Persons who are very plausible and excessively polite have generally some design upon you, as also religionists who call you "dear" the first time they see you. [ Spurgeon ]
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers. [ T. Hook ]
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us. [ Samuel Smiles ]
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds are taken are more potent. [ Bacon ]
The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. [ Herder ]
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. [ Goldsmith ]
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. [ Fielding ]
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. [ Bacon ]
The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. [ Pope ]
Griefs are like the beings that endure them - the little ones are the most clamorous and noisy; those of older growth and greater magnitude are generally tranquil, and sometimes silent. [ Chatfield ]
That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is too generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful what they owe to God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often enough and regularly enough. [ Bishop Whately ]
Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. [ Colton ]
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]
A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]
There is a Russian proverb which says that misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. [ Samuel Smiles ]
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. [ Shenstone ]
Patron or Customer? These nouns are generally used indiscriminately. A patron is a virtual benefactor; one who countenances, aids, or supports. A customer is a purchaser, or buyer, who expects in return for his money full value received. Hence it is erroneous for a merchant to say, He is a patron of mine,
when he means simply a customer. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. [ Ruskin ]
Nominate or Name? To nominate is to mention for a specific purpose. To name is to mention for a general purpose. Persons only are nominated; things, as well as persons, are named. To be nominated is a public act; to be named is generally private. To be nominated is always an honor; to be named may, according to circumstances, be either honorable or dishonorable. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [ Bacon ]
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]
Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]
My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]