Oft Quotes

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. (Sophocles)
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. View quote
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. View quote
William Shakespeare
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. View quote
Alexander Pope
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third One near one is too far. View quote
Robert Browning
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. View quote
William Wordsworth
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. (William Wordsworth)
And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all. View quote
William Wordsworth
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises and oft it hits where hope is coldest and despair most sits. View quote
William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. View quote
Walter Scott
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. View quote
Alexander Pope
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man." View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Greatest fools are oft most satisfied. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. View quote
Ben Jonson
[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]. View quote
George Herbert
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. (William Shenstone)
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. View quote
William Blake
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy for friendship's sake. View quote
William Blake
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. View quote
John Henry Newman