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"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion." »From The Last Goon Show of All
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"Courage mounteth with occasion." »William Shakespeare, King John, II.i
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"All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered." »Sir Walter Raleigh
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"The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them." »Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
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"That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it." »Terence
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"Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream." »Erich Fromm
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"I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes… but I won't let anyone use me against my will." »Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.
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"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
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history." »Joseph Conrad
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"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." »Leigh Hunt
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"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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"As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers." »Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
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"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it." »Orison Swett Marden
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"Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk." »Oswald Mosley
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"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity" »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." »Adam Smith
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." »James Nicoll
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"What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water." »Schopenhauer
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"Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' '" »Al Seckel
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