#oft

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#choose #down #exact #full #genius

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#hooked #passion #pleasure #soft #tender

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#even #lie #murder #often #possible

Appearances are often deceiving. ↗

— Aesop

#deceiving #often

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ↗

— Aesop

#hiss #imitation #men #often #real

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. ↗

— Aesop

#force #more #often #persuasion #than

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ↗

— Aesop

#often #our #sorry #were #wishes

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dismay #events #humanity #indecent #misfortune

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ↗

— William R. Alger

#make up #men #often #reason #up

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#america #arrived #asked #because #foreign