“Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.”
“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.”
“The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.”
“Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.”
“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”
“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”