Oftener Quotes

51 Oftener quotes by 43 unique authors

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
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. — William Wordsworth
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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