A Quote by Rex Stout

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Rex Stout

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Rex Stout
American - Writer
December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975

There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.

Roger Ailes

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Thomas Sprat

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Philip Sidney

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

Bryan Robson

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Abraham Lincoln

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

Rand Paul

Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

Orison Swett Marden

As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.

Samuel Johnson

What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.

Martin Cooper

But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.” Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.

John Flanagan

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Jonathan Brown

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

Anne Perry

On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of these things.)

Bill Walsh

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

Henry David Thoreau

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?

Rand Paul

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Miguel de Cervantes

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