And in fact one of my very best friends once said something to me.

Playing God with them, no less, someone had once said to her.

But you'll have to tell me what to say for this once.

I know she's been thinking of it ever since, by things she would say every once in a while.

As my mother once said, there's not a woman in the world who can't see right through me.

But, as someone once said, the heart has a mind of its own.

"I am not the man to go back from a thing once said."

He once said at some point that had to stop.

Another man had once said this thing to me before.

A lady once said to him she would never be happy again.