Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow… — Benjamin Franklin
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who… — Frank Luntz
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you… — George Mikes
The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their… — Peter HÃ¸eg
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere — Koichiro Matsuura
There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it. — Amelie Mauresmo
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. — Plutarch
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give… — Joseph Addison
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at… — Alphonsus Liguori
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the… — P.J. O'Rourke
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things. — William Shakespeare
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our… — Caitlin Moran
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. — Lord Chesterfield
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and… — Max Lerner
I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most… — Abraham Lincoln
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit… — Truman G. Madsen
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of… — Douglas MacArthur
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment… — Wentworth Miller

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