It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse. Milton Friedman
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Erich Fromm
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. Henry Miller
Everyone is as god made him and very often worse. Mexican Proverb