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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. – Henry Ward Beecher
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. – William Hazlitt
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. – Eric Hoffer
We only do well the things we like doing. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
We only fear what we don't know, if we knew everything we would have no fear. – Tom Zegan
We only part to meet again. – John Gay
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others. – Golda Meir
We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy? – La Fontaine
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. – C. C. Colton
We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. – Richard Cecil
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. – George Washington
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. – D. H. Lawrence
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. – Mother Theresa
We over-praise leaders when organizations succeed and over-blame them when organizations fail. Success or failure depends on the environment as much as or even more than the leader. Effective leaders navigate and influence the environment to enable key success factors for their followers – Med Jones
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. – Mark Twain
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. – Jennie Jerome Churchill
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. – Lewis Thomas
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

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