QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON VARIETIES

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689, British playwright, poet)

Variety is the condition of harmony.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Cato The Elder (BC 234-149, Roman statesman, orator)

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

William Cowper (1731-1800, British poet)

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374, Italian poet, humanist)

Variety is the spice of life.

American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)

It takes all sorts to make a world.

English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)

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

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Terence (Roman writer of comedies)

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