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Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. -- Euripides
Think of God oftener than you breathe. -- Epictetus
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. -- Sir Fulke Greville
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire. -- Plautus
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener. -- Jeremy Taylor
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. -- Duke of Wellington
Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. -- Ivan Panin
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. -- William Cobbett
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. -- D. H. Lawrence
A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener. -- Mark Twain
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet
Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener. -- Emily Dickinson
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. -- Peter De Vries
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. -- Norm MacDonald
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles. -- Samuel Johnson
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ... -- Katherine Anne Porter
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. -- David Hume
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. -- Lord Chesterfield
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. -- Lord Chesterfield
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them? -- Robert Schumann
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. -- Walter Savage Landor
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. -- William Penn
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. -- Oliver Goldsmith
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. -- Oswald Chambers
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ... -- Patricia Wentworth
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself -- Henry Ford
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener. -- Charlotte Riddell
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
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
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
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
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
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
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
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
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. -- Immanuel Kant
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
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
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
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
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It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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
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

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