A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo Coelho

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
Lee Trevino

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero