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Quotes about Variety


Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe: Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Alexander Pope

But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends Of free thoughts in his travels for variety, He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends, That without any danger of a riot, he Might for long lying make himself amends; And singing as he sung in his warm youth, Agree to a short armistice with truth.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Willard Beecher

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

Joseph Addison

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

William Cowper

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

William Euripides

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

Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.

Matthew Prior

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

When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh; Oh! fair Variety!

Nicholas Rowe

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul Richter

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Hank Stram

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Johnny Carson

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Publilius Syrus

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul Richter

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.

William Cowper

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Saiom Petrarch

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