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Variety is the soul of pleasure. -- Aphra Behn
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Variety is the condition of harmony. -- Thomas Carlyle
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. -- Jean Paul
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. -- William Cowper
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. -- Daniel Gilbert
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. -- Hank Stram
Diversity, that is my motto. -- Jean de La Fontaine
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. -- Publilius Syrus
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. -- Joseph Addison
Every change of place becomes a delight. -- Seneca the Younger
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. -- Publilius Syrus
It takes all sorts (to make a world -- Miguel de Cervantes
The variety of all things forms a pleasure. -- Euripides
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. -- Ovid
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. -- Francis Bacon
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. -- William Shakespeare
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. -- Alexander Pope
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. -- Quintilian
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. -- Dave Barry
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source. -- Jim Rohn
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change. -- Oscar Wilde
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own. -- William Gifford
Variety is the spice of love. -- Helen Rowland
Variety is the soul of pleasure -- Aphra Behn
Variety is not everything! Viagra is! -- Tiger Woods
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty. -- Christopher Wren
Variety is the spice of life -- American Proverb
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. -- Marquis de Sade
Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises. -- Tony Robbins
Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things. -- Diane Ackerman
Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. -- John Ruskin
Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills. -- Doug Cooper
I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me. -- Priyanka Chopra
Don't read Variety. Don't listen to gossip. Don't live in L.A., and write. -- Robert Mark Kamen
... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. -- Jack Paar
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music! -- Jason Graves
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. -- Florence Nightingale
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough. -- Daniel Gilbert
I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. -- Shirley Eaton
If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get. -- Robin Ince
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. -- Shirley Eaton
To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield." -- David Copperfield
Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews. -- John Gay
The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it. -- Anton du Beke
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. -- William Shenstone
Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it. -- Martina Navratilova
Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. -- Kenneth Branagh
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place. -- Neil Gaiman
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. -- Michel de Montaigne
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. -- Sasha Cohen
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. -- Ansel Adams
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. -- Quintilian
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. -- Mary Schmich
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. -- Alvar Aalto
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only. -- Robert Shea
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. -- Sasha Cohen
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. -- Joe Baca
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. -- Albert Einstein
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. -- John W. Thompson
We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation. -- Donella Meadows
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. -- Bill Gates
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. -- Isaiah Berlin
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. -- John Shelton Reed
I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain. -- Tom Hooper
In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time. -- Norman Foster
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. -- Lisa Loeb
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people. -- Noreena Hertz
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. -- Leonardo da Vinci
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. -- Jon Stewart
When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day. -- Bruce Forsyth
Put variety in white. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Even pleasure cloys without variety. -- Ovid
Subject has the variety of life. -- Walter J. Phillips
Whatever is natural admits of variety. -- Madame de Stael
Fill the moment and find variety. -- Paul Newman
Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid. -- William Hogarth
Dandyism is a variety of genius. -- William Hazlitt
The joy of life is variety. -- Samuel Johnson
I love variety in my life. -- Elisabetta Canalis
I play a huge variety of roles. -- Casper Van Dien
I play a huge variety of roles -- Casper Van Dien
The great source of pleasure is variety. -- Samuel Johnson
The expression of divinity is in variety. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety. -- Publilius Syrus
Heaven will display far more variety than Hell. -- C. S. Lewis
God is Unity, but always works in variety. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of beauty is unity in variety. -- Felix Mendelssohn
Unity in variety is the plan of the universe. -- Swami Vivekananda
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. -- Petrarch
I still love a variety of kinds of music. -- Gloria Gaynor
There is a variety in tempers of good men. -- Francis Atterbury
I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety. -- Linda Lael Miller
Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety. -- Pope Leo I
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it. -- Publilius Syrus
I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety. -- Kim Basinger
There is need of variety in sex, but not in love. -- Theodor Reik
The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job. -- Tabitha Soren
Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone. -- Winston Churchill
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something. -- Jean Paul
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth. -- Thomas Jefferson
The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes. -- Jonah Lehrer
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. -- A. J. P. Taylor
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. -- Jeremy Bulloch
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I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. -- Nora Roberts
Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program. -- Alex Trebek
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness. -- Ian Mcewan
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion. -- George Washington

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