Careful Words

occasion (n.)

occasion (v.)

occasion (adv.)

For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.

  These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

  It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Of the Training of Children.

  If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.

And statesmen at her council met

Who knew the seasons, when to take

Occasion by the hand, and make

The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): To the Queen.