One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
"Time" does not mean "occasion. "
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.
This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that
Courage mounteth with occasion.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel
Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. "