Variety Quotes

• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  Hank Stram

  Philosophy, Simplicity, Plus

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• Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Process, Term

  Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Enjoyment

  Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.84

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• As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

  Pliny the Elder

  Exercise, Land, Mind

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• David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Stars, Memories

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Knowing, Secret

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• Even pleasure cloys without variety.

  Ovid

  Pleasure

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• The great source of pleasure is variety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Pleasure, Source

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Butler'

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• Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Please

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• Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

  Francis Bacon

  Variety Is The Spice Of Life, Pleasant

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• Variety is the soul of pleasure.

  Aphra Behn

  Soul, Pleasure

  The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7

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• The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

  Euripides

  Pleasure, Form, All Things

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• Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

  John Ruskin

  Character

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• Nature, through all her works, in great degree,
  Borrows a blessing from variety.
  Music itself her needful aid requires
  To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

  Charles Churchill

  Blessing, Fire, Soul

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.142, London : W. Pickering

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• No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pleasure, Endure

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

  William Cowper

  Life, Giving, Inspire

  The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 606 (1785) See Behn 1

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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

  William Cowper

  Men, Mind, Earth

  William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240

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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Order, Envy, May

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Diversity

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• Every change of place becomes a delight.

  Seneca the Younger

  Delight

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• Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

  William Gifford

  Mind, Desire, Shade

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• It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

  Anthony Anderson

  History, Soldier, Historical

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• That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

  Alexander Pope

  Next, Firsts, Vary

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.98

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• The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Color, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.23

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