Famous quotes containing the word oft:
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)