All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.