(36 quotes found)
“Speech is oft repented, silence never”
Danish Proverb
“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
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven”
“Where's the face / One would meet in every place? / Where's the voice, however soft, / One would hear so very oft?”
John Keats
“For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.”
Lord Byron
“For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.”
Bible
“And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.”
“But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at duck or plover, Bear wide, and kick their owners over.”
John Trumbull
“Most surely Ibrahim was forbearing, tender-hearted, oft-returning (to Allah): / O Ibrahim! leave off this, surely the decree of your Lord has come to pass, and surely there must come to them a chastisement that cannot be averted.”
quran
“The question must be asked as to what psychological impact there may be from this oft-cited [number] ... upon consumer sentiment. The unemployment rate and inflation are the most important determinants of consumer sentiment.”
David Rosenberg
