variety Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

29 variety Quotes
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“Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Letter from Italy (l. 100)
“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Task (bk. I, l. 506)
“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 506)
“The variety of all things forms a pleasure.”
Euripides Quotes
Source: Orestes (234)
“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.”
John Gay Quotes
Source: Epistles--To Bernard Lintot, on a Miscellany of Poems
“Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.”
William Gifford Quotes
Source: Perseus
“All concord's born of contraries.”
Ben Jonson Quotes
Source: Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 2)
“Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Source: Pate d' Anguille
“Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 756)
“Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.”
Matthew Prior Quotes
Source: The Turtle and the Sparrow (l. 234)
“For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.]”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes
Source: Levana--Fragment V (I, 100)
“When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh; Oh! fair Variety!”
Nicholas Rowe Quotes
Source: Ode for the New Year
“Every change of place becomes a delight. [Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Epistles (28)
“No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes
Source: Maxims
“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”
Aphra Behn Quotes
“It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.”
Marcus Fabius Quintilian Quotes
“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes
“My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.”
Hank Stram Quotes
“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”
Johnny Carson Quotes
“Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.”
William Morris Quotes
“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”
Cato Quotes
“The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.”
Publilius Syrus Quotes
“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes
“With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.”
William Lloyd George Quotes
“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.”
William Cowper Quotes