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  • To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know. -- Pindar
  • Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. -- Abraham Cowley
  • Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • But if we're going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it." Toshak shrugged. "Do as you wish," he said. "Occasion or not, as long as they're all dead, I'm happy. -- John Flanagan
  • Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. -- Plautus
  • Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. -- Loretta Young
  • May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. -- Bing Crosby
  • I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. -- John Lydon
  • Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. -- Vitruvius
  • I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday. -- Daniel Handler
  • You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe. -- Christian Dior
  • Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen. -- Bryan Cranston
  • I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. -- Lester B. Pearson
  • There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • I don't really like to drink. I don't like the way alcohol feels or tastes. On occasion I'll do it as a social thing, just to kind of go, 'Hey! I did something with you guys!' -- Reggie Watts
  • I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control. -- Amy Grant
  • If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world. -- Kristina McMorris
  • We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion. -- Manmohan Singh
  • I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion. -- Julia Glass
  • On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies. -- Lester Holt
  • We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple. -- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
  • Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. -- Anne Bronte
  • My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. -- Ratan Tata
  • Woolsey bites on occasion -- Cassandra Clare
  • Courage mounteth with occasion. -- William Shakespeare
  • "Time" does not mean "occasion." -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Wine makes every meal an occasion. -- Andre Simon
  • It's the occasion that makes the revolution. -- Machado de Assis
  • Life is an occasion...rise to it. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. -- George Herbert
  • Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. -- Ovid
  • The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. -- Hannah More
  • The Memorial Dedication was a momentous occasion -- Tommy Hilfiger
  • Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. -- Spike Milligan
  • Bottom line, wasn't life itself a special occasion? -- Jan Karon
  • Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • The truth is never dressed for the occasion. -- Steve Maraboli
  • Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves -- Ralph Lauren
  • I didn't realize this was a sad occasion. -- Daniel Handler
  • Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. -- Suzanne Weyn
  • He who truly knows has no occasion to shout. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. -- Cato the Elder
  • The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • What living occasion can, Be just to the absent? -- W. H. Auden
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  • The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms." -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion. -- William Penn
  • Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion! -- Johnny Weir
  • It's a very special venue and a very special occasion. -- Matthew Hayden
  • It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. -- Horace
  • I had no occasion for an apron on that morning. -- Lizzie Borden
  • Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion. -- James Kerr
  • Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion. -- David Nail
  • I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too. -- Walter Annenberg
  • Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician. -- George Stillman Hillard
  • I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon. -- Crash Davis
  • He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. -- John Henry Newman
  • Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming. -- Cassandra Clare
  • HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. -- Tom Brokaw
  • Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. -- John Milton
  • Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion,... -- Jean Giraudoux
  • Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion. -- Jeff Lindsay
  • I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion. -- Brenda Lee
  • Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. -- Plautus
  • On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian. -- Zebulon Pike
  • A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. -- Paul Tournier
  • Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. -- Henry Fuseli
  • The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. -- Howard G. Hendricks
  • Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. -- Moliere
  • The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
  • The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell. -- Herblock
  • Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober. -- Ed Byrne
  • I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. -- David Rockefeller
  • I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion. -- Jerome K. Jerome
  • All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive. -- Madame de Stael
  • I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders. -- Donovan McNabb
  • You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it -- Victoria Beckham
  • Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. -- Andre Simon
  • There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. -- William Wordsworth
  • People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense. -- John Wesley
  • The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
  • All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous. -- Paul Russell
  • The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
  • I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. -- Joan Blades
  • You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion. -- Richard Branson
  • It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion... -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion. -- Rex Stout
  • To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. -- John Gould
  • A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory. -- Jimmy Carter
  • In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver. -- Debi Mazar
  • I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist. -- Bernie Ecclestone
  • This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that -- Bryan Robson
  • You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training. -- Barrett Tillman
  • Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. -- Sigmund Freud
  • If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses? -- Joseph Epstein
  • You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves. -- Christopher Marlowe
  • Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed. -- Fanny Burney
  • Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. -- Hesiod
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