Oftener Quotes
51 Oftener quotes by 43 unique authors
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
— Euripides
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
— Walter Savage Landor
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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
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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
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
— Ernest Dimnet
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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
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
— David Hume
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
— D. H. Lawrence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
— Mark Twain
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities,…
— Francis Bacon Sr
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I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
— William Wordsworth
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The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.
— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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