Top 292 Oft Quotes & Sayings

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force, Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course; And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain; Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come, And breathe around her melancholy gloom: To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine, And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

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.

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

Oft stumbles at a straw.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

A bitter drug oft brings relief.

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason.