Occasion

Famous quotes containing the word occasion:

“I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)