Occasion Quotes

• Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Occasion
  • Civility

• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feeling
  • Artist
  • Portrait

• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Riches
  • Occasion
  • Good Actions

• Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Careful

• I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Think
  • Enjoyed
  • Pleasant

• 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
  • Peace
  • Inspired
  • Ideals

• Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • City
  • Keeping

• Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

  

  Ovid
  • Occasion
  • Passes
  • Swiftly

• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Riches
  • Disagreement

• I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • I Hope
  • Occasion
  • Incline

• Slime is the sticky essence of a gastropod’s soul, the medium for everything in its life: locomotion, defense, healing, courting, mating, and egg protection. Nearly one-third of my snail’s daily energy went into slime production. And rather than making a single batch of “all-purpose” slime, my snail had a species-specific recipe for each of these needs and for different parts of its body. It could adjust the ingredients, just as a good cook would, to meet a particular occasion. And in a catastrophic accident in which a snail is squashed, it can release a flood of lifesaving, medicinal mucus packed with antioxidants and regenerative properties.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Soul
  • Smile
  • Protection

• On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Moral
  • Pleasure

• At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Forget
  • Occasion

• Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Philosophical
  • Occasion
  • Misunderstanding

• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathena.

  

  Athenaeus
  • Age
  • Wine
  • Occasion

• The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Hood

• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Laughter
  • Glory
  • Hopes

• The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rise
  • Occasion
  • Piled

• I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Risk
  • Occasion
  • Humiliating

• For special occasions, I love pretty dresses - but nothing too frou-frou!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Pretty
  • Special
  • Dresses

• What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

  

  Epictetus
  • Occasion
  • Achieves
  • Good Person

• I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Occasion
  • I Thank

• You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Possess

• Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Silent
  • Trivial
  • Marianne

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