The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
Erma Bombeck

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck

What is once well done is done forever.
Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
Mitch Hedberg

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Mitch Hedberg

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Mae West

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe