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William Cowper Variety is the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper Variety is the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour.
William Shakespeare Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
POPE: _Windsor Forest,_ Line 13. Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
William Shakespeare Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women Cloy th' appetites they feed; but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.
Robert Smith Surtees Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety: other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
Meg Whitman Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
John W. Gardner Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Elder Brother,_ Act i., Sc. 2. That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels.
Leonardo DaVinci Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superflu
George Mathew Allen Have a variety of interests ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Livy History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine thing
Frank Zappa Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Jeffrey Vlaming Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Spice is the variety of life.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
"All cats are *not* grey at night. Endless variety" - Heinlein
"Democracy admits variety and permits criticism." -- Forster
"The great source of pleasure is variety." -- Johnson
"It's sad how some people can't handle a little variety." - Calvin
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
"What kind of fool are you?"--Kajada "My own special variety."--Odo
"What kind of fool ARE you?"--Kajarda "My own special variety."--Odo
"What kind of fool are you?" "My own special variety."

 

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