Top 35 Oftenest Quotes
#1. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
#2. The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Julius Charles Hare
#3. Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Herman Melville
#4. We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Thomas Carlyle
#6. One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden
#7. Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
#8. The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
#10. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#13. Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
Hosea Ballou
#15. All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
John Ruskin
#16. Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Nicolas Chamfort
#17. The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds;
High towers fall with a heavier crash;
And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace
#18. Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.
George Edward Woodberry
#19. I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.
Helene Hanff
#20. Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
Austin O'Malley
#21. In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#22. So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you'd rather ignore.
V.C. Andrews
#24. We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
Edith Hamilton
#25. Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.
Douglas Clegg
#26. The third requirement for success is ingenuity - thinking
Atul Gawande
#27. I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
Sylvester McCoy
#28. greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s - a period when Hollywood worked
Ben Shapiro
#30. I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.
Jay Roach
#31. By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#32. The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
Ken Hill
#33. Travis was still asleep, surrounding me with both his arms and his legs. I maneuvered an arm free to reach over and pound the snooze button. Wiping my face, I looked over at him, sleeping soundly two inches from my face.
Jamie McGuire
#34. Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a ... You know.
Ike Turner
#35. It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
Jeffrey Archer
