Careful Words

variety (n.)

Variety's the very spice of life.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 606.

  To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.

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

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,

But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,

Where order in variety we see,

And where, though all things differ, all agree.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Windsor Forest. Line 13.

  No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 406.