“O, pardon me, my lord! it oft falls out,To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.I something do excuse the thing I hate.”
William Shakespeare
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not”
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that”
“For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.”
Bible
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
“Jesters do oft prove prophets”
