Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck. " Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.
A bitter drug oft brings relief.
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
Oft stumbles at a straw.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.
The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
