Top 75 Oftener Quotes
#1. O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
Thomas Carlyle
#2. 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
#3. Foreseeing is not understanding, else surely the prophecy latent in man would come oftener to the surface!
George MacDonald
#4. Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
Jane Austen
#5. The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#6. We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
Walter Savage Landor
#7. A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
Norm MacDonald
#9. Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
Peter De Vries
#10. Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.
Henry Miller
#11. 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, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
Francis Bacon
#12. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#13. We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
John Keats
#14. Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
Euripides
#15. The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")
Charles Collins
#16. Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.
Alexander Hamilton
#17. And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.
Dodie Smith
#18. Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
George Eliot
#19. Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#20. Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
D.H. Lawrence
#21. Even in ordinary conversation, the ideas connected with the word Logic include at least precision of language, and accuracy of classification: and we perhaps oftener hear persons speak of a logical arrangement, or of expressions logically defined, than of conclusions logically deduced from premises.
John Stuart Mill
#22. ...stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.
Robert J. Hastings
#23. All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
Walter Savage Landor
#25. I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Has oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#26. Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
William Gurnall
#27. Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.
Sir Fulke Greville
#28. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
remember that
and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
Herman Melville
#30. We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
Oliver Goldsmith
#31. I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.
Florence Converse
#32. I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Sophie Swetchine
#33. Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
#34. 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 down to write.
Mignon McLaughlin
#35. Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
Sir Fulke Greville
#37. Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.
Thomas Davis
#39. post-prandial hour. But oftener than not when these occasions occurred,
E.F. Benson
#40. 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 of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
#41. I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, 'I'll never ask anything of Him again;' but, on the contrary, 'He shall hear oftener from me than ever,' and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.
Philip Henry
#42. If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
Oswald Chambers
#43. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
#44. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Ernest Dimnet
#45. Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
Emily Dickinson
#46. That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice
George Bernard Shaw
#47. The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
Blaise Pascal
#48. If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener.
Charlotte Riddell
#49. Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
Robert Schumann
#50. The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ...
Patricia Wentworth
#52. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#53. Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
#54. I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#55. 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
#56. If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#57. Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
#58. Think of God oftener than you breathe.
Epictetus
#59. Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
Plautus
#60. Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
Samuel Smiles
#61. 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 it by the labor of his brains.
Washington Irving
#62. Tradition, - which sometimes brings down truth that history has let slip, but is oftener the wild babble of the time, such as was formerly spoken at the fireside and now congeals in newspapers, - tradition is responsible for all contrary averments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#63. First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ...
Katherine Anne Porter
#64. The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
Ivan Panin
#65. It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
Walter Raleigh
#66. Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume
#67. Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#68. Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
Samuel Johnson
#69. A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once - not oftener.
Mark Twain
#71. All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
remember that
and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
Herman Melville
#72. Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
Horace Mann
#74. Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Henry Ford
#75. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
William Penn
