Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Eça de Queiroz

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

Charlton Ogburn

“Circumstances are seldom right… You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments”. –Charlton Ogburn

Henri de Lubac

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these”. –Paul Harvey

Walter Matthau

“The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty”. –Walter Matthau

Yogananda

“There are always two forces warring against each other within us”. –Yogananda

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think”. –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georges Duhamel

“It is always brave to say what everyone thinks”. –Georges Duhamel

Grandma Moses

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be”. –Grandma Moses

Salvatore Quasimodo

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost”. –Salvatore Quasimodo

Robert Moog

“One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it’s so easy to make sounds, and put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it’s just as hard as it always was to make good music”. –Robert Moog

Hunter S. Thompson

“I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling”. –Hunter S. Thompson

W.C. Fields

“I never vote for anybody; I always vote against”. –W.C. Fields