Generally

Famous quotes containing the word generally:

    Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.
    The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)

    A husband’s mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    He generally added the syllable um to his words when he could,—as paddlum, etc.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)