“ Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ”
- Laura Swenson- Copy
- 362
“ It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. ”
- Charles Turner- Copy
- 852
“ An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 966
“ A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. ”
- Neil Diamond- Copy
- 321
“ The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 300
“ The advantages of a losing team: You are not asked fifty times a day, "What was the score?"; people take it for granted that you lost. ”
- Elmer E. Bates- Copy
- 4K
“ Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. ”
- Walter A. Mueller- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ”
- Henry S. Haskins- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ”
- Conor Cruise O’Brien- Copy
- 3.8K
“ He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase — that's what wild geese are for. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
- 2.6K
“ And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit — such are the just grounds for the regrets I have … ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 1.9K
“ As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 38
“ Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal and the common cold. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. ”
- Horace Benchley- Copy
- 2.8K
“ His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure… Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world. ”
- Sam Collins- Copy
- 2K
“ One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. ”
- Harold V Melchert- Copy
- 1K
“ It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood. ”
- H. L. Wayland- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing… But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
- 2.9K
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