VARIETY QUOTES II
quotations about variety
Man differs from man; generation from generation; nation from nation; education, station, sex, age, accidental associations, produce infinite shades of variety.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous
How Nature delights and amuses us by varying even the character of insects: the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of the drone, the volatility of the butterfly, the slyness of the bug.
SYDNEY SMITH
A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
JOHNNY CARSON
The Tonight Show
The eye is pleased with the beautiful varieties of nature.
VIRGIL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Variety is life. Uniformity is death.
BENJAMIN CONSTANT
Cours de politique consitutionnelle
Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
ROBIN SHARMA
attributed, Quotes on Courage
Variety is what it's all about, and the entertainment is in watching how all its trillions of different parts interact with each other.
SURINDER GILL
Realisation
Periodical variety is the want of the soul as well as of the body.
FRANCOIS CHARLES MARIE FOURIER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided in the great variety which is to be found in His word.
GEORGE MUELLER
Answers to Prayer
A little variety never killed anybody. Well, except that guy who got stabbed by 100 different kinds of knives.
NATHAN GRAYSON
"Counter-Strike Map Based On One Piece Actually Kinda Works", Kotaku, July 12, 2015
When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
NICHOLAS ROWE
"Ode for the New Year"
A little variety never hurt nobody, and this seems to be an area where we are sorely lacking. Test the theory -- go out with your pals, have a good time. And when you're reminiscing at a Waffle House at 3 a.m. smelling like cigarette smoke, perfume and regret you'll know that I'm right.
JORDAN LAWRENCE
"What Columbia Needs: 24 Ways to Build a Better City", Free Times, February 8, 2017
Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL
Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education
The "Variety" is but the principle's natural safeguard from self-destruction by excess of self.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
"The Rationale of Verse", Complete Tales & Poems
If order in objects is necessary, variety is so also; without this the soul grows languid, for objects which resemble each other appear to it to be the same; thus histories please us by the variety of relations, romances by the variety of prodigies, theatrical pieces by the variety of passions; and they who properly instruct us vary as much as they can their form of instruction.
JOHN HINTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
attributed, Select Proverbs of All Nations: Wise Sayings and Maxims of the Ancient Fathers
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
HANK STRAM
attributed, Hung Up: A Fisherman's SOS
From theme to theme with secret pleasure tossed,
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Poems on Several Occasions
I know some people will defend the lack of variety because of how it's a proven formula, is cheaper to make and is far less of a risk, but I still find such homogeny to be disappointing.
ERIC MCINNIS
"What 'Samurai Jack' Could Mean For The Future Of Adult Animation", Study Breaks, April 5, 2017
Variety has been called the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor; hence many people use so much spice that everything becomes artificial, and nature no longer borrows blessings from variety, which must be governed by discretion, and made subservient to the wants of nature; not those of a vitiated taste and pampered appetite.
LEVI CARROLL JUDSON
The Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things