VARIETY QUOTES

quotations about variety

Variety quote

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

PETRARCH

attributed, Proverbs, Maxims, and Phrases of All Ages

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Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

CHINESE PROVERB

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The world offers an enormous variety of creatures -- the stars, the variety on our own planet, the world of plants and animals. The basic message about this variety is that it is good, it is what God intends, it corresponds to the Creator's will.

CHRISTOPH VON SCHÖNBORN

Chance or Purpose?: Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith


Fear of the unknown is an unavoidable part of the human condition. As human beings, we have an inherent, psychological need for certainty -- for comfort -- because it makes us feel like we're in control. And, funny enough, we also have the need for uncertainty -- for variety -- because it reminds us that we're alive. But ... most people value certainty a lot more, and that's why their lives are so boring.

TONY ENDELMAN

"Inertia is Death", Huffington Post, May 1, 2017


The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

UMBERTO ECO

The Name of the Rose

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Variety is the soul of pleasure.

APHRA BEHN

The Rover

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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.

AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS

The Satires of Persius


Variety is pleasing to all persons, but to none so much as the young and the fickle.

GEORGE CRABB

English Synonyms Explained


There is a grace in wild variety
Surpassing rule and order.

WILLIAM MASON

The English Garden


There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

RUMI

The Book of Love

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

MATTHEW PRIOR

"The Turtle and the Sparrow"


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

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task

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The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims


Variety is progressive and dynamic, whereas unity is dangerously retrograde.

CARRIE TIRADO BRAMEN

The Uses of Variety


People have a need for variety, so if you have the same cookie-cutter product or service, you'll have nothing to compel customers to choose you versus your proven competitors.

CAMERON BENSON

"7 Things Every Twentysomething Entrepreneur Must Know", Entrepreneur, October 26, 2015


To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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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

"On a Miscellany of Poems to Bernard Lintot, the Bookseller", The Poems of John Gay

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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

PAULO COELHO

Brida


I should be happy,
Prime of my life.
Single and wild and far from free.
And bound by all this variety.
And now there's too much of everything.

RYAN MONTBLEAU

"Variety"