Oftener Quotes

51 quotes by 43 authors

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. — William Cobbett
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. — Oliver Goldsmith
Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures… — Washington Irving
The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. — Euripides
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. — Walter Savage Landor
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. — Samuel Smiles
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… — Thorstein Veblen
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march… — Robert A. Heinlein
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. — David Hume
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. — D. H. Lawrence
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power… — Leo Tolstoy
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting… — Mignon McLaughlin
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. — Mary MacLane
She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die.… — Gwendolyn Brooks

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