Oft Quotes

Two of my mom`s most oft-repeated mom-isms are: "Happiness is your own responsibility" and "Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes in the morning." Both are true.

The best laid schemes o` Mice an` Men, Gang aft agley, An` lea`e us nought but grief an` pain, For promis`d joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!)

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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