Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor
WILLIAM COWPER Variety is the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER Variety is the spice of life
AMERICAN PROVERB Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Ch...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA It's very nice to do a little bit of the darkness after a little bit of the lightness. Variety i...
THOMAS GIBSON My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.
DOUG COOPER Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor
JAYELLE COCHRAN Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Chemically, the qualities that make a spice a spice are its rare essential oils and oleoresins, high...
JACK TURNER They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.
CHRISTINA ENGELA If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
CHEKHOV If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
JOHNNY CARSON If variety if the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam
JOHNNY CARSON Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's fo...
SANDRA LEE The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. ...
BRADLEY JAMES I have a very irregular life, and by that, I mean I do many different things with my time. No day is...
JESSICA STEEN the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange…The spice extends life… expands...
FRANK HERBERT It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to w...
TOM WOLFE Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages...
CHINUA ACHEBE Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done wit...
SIMON FULLER Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I loo...
CARA DELEVINGNE I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY It gives it a flavor and texture that's outrageous.
CHASE HIBBARD The literary community is very rich. The Haitian culture stands out as unique, especially the litera...
DAVID BROWN Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibran...
GREG GRAFFIN I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditativ...
NINA DOBREV Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
JEANETTE WINTERSON All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by t...
ISAAC NEWTON And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thin...
KEVIN KELLY That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty....
DEYTH BANGER Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important ...
MARY QUANT I wouldn't say there's a need for the Spice Girls, but I'd say there's a place for t...
GREG GRAFFIN 'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offe...
JARED KUSHNER I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin s...
TAYLOR SWIFT Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
YOLANDI VISSER Oregano is the spice of life.
HENRY J. TILLMAN The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's wha...
MARIA BARTIROMO After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capaciti...
MAGGIE HASSAN Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopeless...
VACLAV HAVEL I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of...
LAURIE GRAHAM 'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woma...
GERI HALLIWELL There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd...
ALAN THICKE Acceptance Is The Most Happiest Thing Than Expectation
BHARATH RAO KADAM My favorite video of all time is 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls. That's th...
CHARLI XCX You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vid...
WERNER HERZOG Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absur...
ALBERT CAMUS A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of...
HELEN ROWLAND Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Na...
JASON ALEXANDER The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you...
JOEL ROBUCHON Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you mig...
TOM DOUGLAS Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of nat...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..."
ALLY CARTER No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's...
KIM GORDON The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater lifes pain, the greater life...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
RAY BRADBURY I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer'...
MALAIKA ARORA KHAN I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody els...
MISSY ELLIOTT Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and peop...
TIM DALY Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.
LEIGH MICHAELS I am not an outgoing person. I am a very aloof person who gives a lot to his work. It's very dif...
TIGER SHROFF The flavor the came to me was a luscious Sincerest peach that I once had in California. This heirloo...
JUDITH M. FERTIG There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a ...
MATTHEW STOVER We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.
NEYMAT KHAN A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to t...
A.D. POSEY 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are w...
WILLIAM COWPER More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that'...
TADASHI YANAI You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixt...
EMERIL LAGASSE Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one ...
LEE RITENOUR I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives ...
CATHERINE HICKS For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it&...
TITE KUBO The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales a...
ALISON KRAUSS Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I ha...
INA GARTEN Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but auth...
CHIP CONLEY The fashion of the '90s is a massive inspiration to me. My favorite video of all time is 'Sa...
CHARLI XCX Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness...
VACLAV HAVEL One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of ...
ALAN MOORE Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our Americ...
TOM BRADY Death gives life its fullest reality.
ANTHONY DALLA VILLA Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.
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WILLIAM COWPER Fast-anchor'd isle.
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WILLIAM COWPER Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
WILLIAM COWPER Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
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WILLIAM COWPER A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPER The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPER O solitude, where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst o...
WILLIAM COWPER Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of o...
WILLIAM COWPER I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,--
"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."
B...
WILLIAM COWPER A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d...
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased ...
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And r...
WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER Away went Gilpin, neck or naught, / Away went hat and wig!
WILLIAM COWPER