“Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
“Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.”
“Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
“The apparel oft proclaims the man”
“A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it ”