Oft

Famous quotes containing the word oft:

    “Let him
    Who was love’s teacher teach you too love’s cure;
    Let the same hand that wounded bring the balm.
    Healing and poisonous herbs the same soil bears,
    And rose and nettle oft grow side by side.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “It oft falls out,
    To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We are oft to blame in this,
    ‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage
    And pious action we do sugar o’er
    The devil himself.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)