You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both… — Drew Hayden Taylor Copy Share Image
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I’m an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there’s always a ball right next to me… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in. — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion. — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
