Once Quotes

To do two things at once is to do neither. (Publilius Syrus)

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Horace

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Demosthenes

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Indira Gandhi

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

Haruki Murakami

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. (Paulo Coelho)

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Euripides

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Euripides

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

Publilius Syrus

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Audrey Hepburn

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly

Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once. (Tallulah Bankhead)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Oprah Winfrey

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Hannah Arendt

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