49 Oftenest Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous oftenest quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational oftenest quotes. Hopefully, these oftenest quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your oftenest knowledge!

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Famous Oftenest Quotes

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. — Epictetus

The obvious is always least understood. - Klemens Von Metternich

The obvious is always least understood. — Klemens Von Metternich

The one that doesn't come to mind, happens. — Turkish Proverbs

He has the most who is most content with the least. - Diogenes

He has the most who is most content with the least. — Diogenes

Often does one desire what one does not need. — Icelandic Proverbs

They talk most who have the least to say. — Matthew Prior

That one who has the most isn’t the richest, but the one who needs it the least. — Spanish Proverbs

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. — Charlie Munger

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. — Charles Caleb Colton

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? — Jackson Browne

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham

They are most cheated who cheat themselves. — Danish Proverbs

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle

Short Oftenest Quotes

  • Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. — Hosea Ballou
  • Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips
  • Thanks, oftenest obtrusive. — William Shenstone
  • Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. — Nicolas Chamfort
  • Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. — Frederick Douglass
  • Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
  • He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. — Herman Melville
  • Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff
  • He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest. — Frederick Douglass

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Read quotes by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
quotes on education, slavery and human rights

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Read quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
quotes on god, love and morality

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Read quotes by Richard Bach

Richard Bach
quotes on love, family and life

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Read quotes by Epictetus

Epictetus
quotes on life, control and death

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Read quotes by Klemens Von Metternich

Klemens Von Metternich
quotes on communism, education and war

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Read quotes by Turkish Proverbs

Turkish Proverbs
quotes on wisdom, friendship and relationship

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More Oftenest Quotes

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. — Julius Charles Hare

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. — Horace

Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction. — Henry David Thoreau

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. — Herman Melville

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to I hate to read new books, and I hollered Comrade! to whoever owned it before me. — Helene Hanff

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. — John Ruskin

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. — William Cowper

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. — Thomas Carlyle

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. — Frederick Douglass

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire. — George Edward Woodberry

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