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  • Variety is the spice of life
    Variety is the spice of life
    Changes and new experiences make life delightful.
  • variety is the spice of life
    variety is the spice of life
    Diversity makes life interesting, as in Jim dates a different girl every week—variety is the spice of life, he claims. This phrase comes from William Cowper's poem, “The Task” (1785): “Variety is the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”

Variety is the spice of life

Cultural  
  1. Changes and new experiences make life delightful.


variety is the spice of life Idioms  
  1. Diversity makes life interesting, as in Jim dates a different girl every week—variety is the spice of life, he claims. This phrase comes from William Cowper's poem, “The Task” (1785): “Variety is the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”


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On the one hand, it affords more variety, and variety is the spice of life.

From The Verge • Aug. 9, 2022

If variety is the spice of life, it was time to skirmish with the stones again!

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2017

Health, social care, community regeneration and education are the four main areas of activity, but if variety is the spice of life then CIC is very spicy indeed.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2013

As any biologist will testify, genetic variety is the spice of life, a necessary ingredient to the survival of a species.

From Time Magazine Archive

If variety is the spice of life, then here is spice enough.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry