Occasional Quotes

Occasional Quotes & Sayings

These occasional quotes and occasional sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and pass-men, but in the original authorities of each time, 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 brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. - Oscar Wilde


A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. - Groucho Marx


A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash


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


The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional 'exception.' - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love. - Milton R. Sapirstein


As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. - Robert Charles Benchley


He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. - Sydney Smith


If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. - Robertson Davies