Occasional Quotes

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.