Quotes About Repetition

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively -- over and over and over!

It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.