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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
— Patrick Dempsey
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
— James Russell Lowell
A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it
— Francis Bacon
All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.
— John Milton
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
— George Herbert
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
— Edmund Spenser
Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.
— Thomas Watson
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
— William Browne
God, who oft descends to visit menUnseen, and through their habitations walks
To mark their doings. — John Milton
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
— Robert Browning
We are oft to blame in this, -'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself. — William Shakespeare
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
— William Shakespeare
By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
— Christoph Martin Wieland
And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats
A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart.
— George R R Martin
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
— William Shakespeare
Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.
— George R R Martin
Despair and Genius are too oft connected
— George Gordon Byron
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.
— William Shakespeare
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
— Benjamin Franklin
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ...
— Erica Jong
It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I
— Jeff VanderMeer
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
— Benjamin Franklin
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
— Alfred Austin
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
— John Webster
To fear the worst oft cures the worst.
— William Shakespeare
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoopThan when we soar. — William Wordsworth
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
— Michael Bruce
Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more. — William Shakespeare
For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed.
— William Shakespeare
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.
— John Milton
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
— William Shakespeare
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
— Thomas Tusser
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
— Christopher Marlowe
For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.
— Jacqueline Carey
Oft times, we must fight a battle, if only to learn to lay down our arms.
— Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
oft evil will shall evil mar.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
— Edmund Spenser
Much too oft we make life gloomyWhen happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. — Charles Caleb Colton
The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.
— George R R Martin
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
— John Donne
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
— Robert Greene
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind, And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. — William Shakespeare
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
— George Herbert
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Auguries are oft subtle ... and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
— William Blake
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
— Baltasar Gracian
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
— William Wordsworth
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
— Sophocles
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
— Herbert Hoover
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by.
— George Linley
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
— William Shakespeare
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
— Charles Dickens
The apparel oft proclaims the man
— William Shakespeare
And he that strives to touch the starsOft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues- 1654 — Esmerelda Jane Forstine
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
— John Dryden
Lovers may never meet again, but the ways of enemies oft do intersect: This proves some corollary about gravity.
— William T. Vollmann
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
— William Shakespeare
Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
— William Wordsworth
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
— Philip Sidney
How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. — Gustave Flaubert
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
— William Shakespeare
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
— William Wordsworth
Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
