Quotes About Novelty

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Like all things new, it was awkward at first, until I got accustomed to it.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.