Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only. — Mencius Copy Share Image
I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps;… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less… — Mimi Sheraton Copy Share Image
PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
[Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image