"More often than not" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doomed to a paltry wage, to the uncertainty of the morrow, to want of work, often to destitution, more often than not to death in a hospital, after having worked forty years to feed, clothe, amuse, and instruct others than ...
— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin
... dogs; they do lie, more often than not. These particular dogs have lied for nearly three years. I'm going to stir them up and see if I can't get a yelp of the ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... best informed person regarding local happenings, in the small town of Millford. She really knew. Every community has its unlicensed and unauthorized gossips, who think they know what their neighbors are thinking and doing, but who more often than not get their data wrong, and are always careless of detail. Mrs. Crocks was not ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung
... genealogical tree. Every Javan "prince" has his "babad," in which the names of his ancestors and their deeds are recounted. Remembering the fertility of the Eastern imagination, and the despotic character of Eastern rulers, it is easy to understand that such babads were more often than not reduced in point of veracity to the standard of an average fairy tale. M. Brumund, whose remarks on this subject are embodied in Leemans' work on the Boro-Boedoer temple, deals very severely with the babads. He cannot away with ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold
... Mr. Wilks, darkly; "out early and 'ome late, and more often than not getting my dinner out. ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
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