The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work. — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion. — Michael Owen Copy Share Image
You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion.… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are several occasions in the course of any woman's day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from… — John Hay Copy Share Image
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in… — William Law Copy Share Image
In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won.… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything. — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
