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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. -- Moliere
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. -- Marshall McLuhan
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. -- Spike Milligan
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion. -- Jerome K. Jerome
In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver. -- Debi Mazar
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. -- Elizabeth Berg
The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion. -- Mas Oyama
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. -- Hector Berlioz
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. -- John Lydon
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. -- Richard Pound
At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it. -- Epictetus
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion. -- Alice Temperley
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies. -- Pearl S. Buck
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion. -- William E. Gladstone
As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge. -- Johann Lamont
New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid. -- Olly Murs
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion. -- Ed Koch
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. -- Thomas Day
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. -- Jim Rohn
There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event. -- Brunello Cucinelli
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion. -- Orison Swett Marden
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right. -- Robert E. Lee
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. -- Mary Manin Morrissey
What's blessed about my life is that I have been able to connect with the global audience on a regular basis. I am thankful for everybody's love, and I reciprocate that, but I also have to deliver on every occasion. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear. -- Elias Hicks
No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? -- Christian Bale
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable. -- William Hazlitt
Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book. -- Marvin Mudrick
When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. -- Daniel Hannan
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. -- Bob Marley
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion. -- Henry Fielding
On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit. -- John Wesley
Wine makes every meal an occasion. -- Andre Simon
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Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. -- Andre Simon
Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion. -- Thomas S. Monson
Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion. -- Fred Barnes
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. -- Mark Twain
You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion. -- Wolfgang Puck
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. -- Stendhal
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. -- Michael Pollan
I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself -- Ralph Lauren
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. -- Desmond Tutu
Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place. -- Orison Swett Marden
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. -- Philip Sidney
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. -- William Cowper
It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... -- Kristin Chenoweth
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. -- Epictetus
Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy. -- Tom Robbins
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?" -- Epictetus
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws. -- Agatha Christie

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