Famous quotes containing the word oft:
“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
The self-same way with more advised watch
To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
I oft found both.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)