Occasion Quotes

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (W. Somerset Maugham)

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Spike Milligan

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.

Oswald Mosley

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Thomas More

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Loretta Young

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

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

OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. (Plutarch)

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Denis Diderot

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

Vitruvius

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

Neil Strauss

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Benjamin Disraeli

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

Nina Garcia

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Bing Crosby

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Brenda Blethyn

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. (Fiona Shaw)

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Nobuo Uematsu

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, &c. Consider every act of this kind, as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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