Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs.

In the toughest times, the best players rise to the occasion.

Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

Also, as I looked at the mite of a youth with the heart of a lion, I thought, this is the type that on occasion rears barricades and shows the world that men have not forgotten how to die.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is

Bin Laden wasn’t all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It’s been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn’t involve a sports team. I’d rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we’ll take what we can get.

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

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.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.

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

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts, and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action

The environment does not determine behavior. Rather, it provides the occasion for the behavior.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sigh

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.