Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime."
Occasional quotes
Occasional
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink."
Lin Yutang
Writer
"Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having."
Carroll Smith
Author
"The price for men in motion is the occasional collision."
Henry Adams
Historian
"As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman."
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"All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly."
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"Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake."
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"In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine."
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"Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor."
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"Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content."
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