Oft Quotes

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!