Oft Quotes

179 Oft quotes by 99 unique authors

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. — Abraham Lincoln
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If… — John Shelby Spong
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true. — William Shakespeare
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. — Lucretius
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light,… — Jessye Norman
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. — Francis Bacon
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. — Herbert Hoover
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. — John Webster
A short saying oft contains much wisdom — Sophocles
And We did not send any apostle but that he should be obeyed by Allah's permission; and had they, when they were unjust to themselves,… — Quran
When there comes the help of Allah and the victory, And you see men entering the religion of Allah in companies, Then celebrate the praise… — Quran
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do… — Bible
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it proves in happie Hour - The first sweete… — Elinor Glyn
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well. — William Shakespeare
Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar — William Wordsworth
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare
In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the… — William Shakespeare
Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again. — Sandro
The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. — Hugh Latimer
Speech is oft repented, silence never — Danish Proverb

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