Intense people are usually narrowminded. [ Madame de Sartory ]

Man usually believes, if only words he hears.
That also with them goes material for thinking. [ Goethe ]

I usually take a two hour nap from one to four. [ Yogi Berra ]

Good-nature and good sense are usually companions. [ Pope ]

High houses are usually empty in the upper storey. [ German Proverb ]

Old gossips are usually young flirts gone to seed. [ J. L. Basford ]

Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries. [ Proverb ]

Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In jealousy there is usually more self-love than love. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [ Coleridge ]

Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late. [ Bovee ]

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Fine dressing is usually a foul house swept before the door. [ Proverb ]

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [ Plautus ]

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement. [ Winfield Scott ]

Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it. [ George Sand ]

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. [ Daniel Webster ]

Mediocre minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Anger has some claim to indulgence, and railing is usually a relief to the mind. [ Junius ]

First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest. [ Lessing ]

We usually lose the today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. [ Ruskin ]

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought and of elevated opinions. [ George Dawson ]

Women are a fascinatingly wilful set. Every woman is a rebel and usually in wild revolt against herself. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. [ Maria Edgeworth ]

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. [ Emerson ]

Happiness and virtue react upon each other - the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. [ Lytton ]

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. [ Carlyle ]

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The misfortune is that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety. [ Knox ]

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. [ Bovee ]

Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]

Nothing is so difficult as the apparent ease of a clear and flowing style; those graces which, from their presumed facility, encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. [ Colton ]

A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. [ Izaak Walton ]

In public affairs, we may usually infer the weakness of the cause by the excessive price that ministers have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. [ Colton ]

Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. [ Swift ]

Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]