Quotes About Infrequency

Five times every hundred years there is a February . . . without a [full] moon.

Solar eclipses occur around two to five times per year but the area on the ground covered by the totality is very small, so in any given location on Earth a total eclipse will only happen once every 360 years.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

Invalids, weary of having to make the infrequency of their attacks depend on their own prudence, like to persuade themselves that they can do everything that they enjoy, and that does them harm, with impunity, provided that they place themselves in the hands of a higher authority who, without putting them to the least inconvenience, can and will, by uttering a word or by administering a pill, set them once again on their feet.

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.