Oft Quotes

179 Oft quotes by 99 unique authors

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe,… — Thom Yorke
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. — William Shakespeare
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… — John Milton
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Unknown Author
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. — Robert Greene
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful. — Gary Hamel
God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men,… — John Bunyan
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least… — William B. Davis
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… — Alexander Pope
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness… — R. Scott Bakker
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be. — Charlie Fletcher
"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow:… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. — Robert Browning
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. — Brooks Atkinson
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… — John Milton
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. — John Milton
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each… — John Milton
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; — 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… — Samuel Johnson
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love. — Charles Lamb
Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears,… — Charles Lamb

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