Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Variety alone gives joy; / The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. Prior.

Variety is the condition of harmony. J. F. Clarke.

Variety is the mother of enjoyment. Disraeli. 40

Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur. Shenstone.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of somethings. Jean Paul.

Variety's the very spice of life, / That gives it all its flavour. Cowper.

Variorum notæ—Notes of various authors.

Varium et mutabile semper / Fœmina—Woman 45 is ever changeable and capricious. Virg.

Vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade anything too far. Bacon.

Vast chain of being! / From Nature's chain whatever link you strike / Tenth or ten thousandth breaks the chain alike. Pope.