Quotes About Inconstancy

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

Fortune's a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

he wrote of his opposition toward harsh punishment for rape, "on account of the temptation women would be under to make it the instrument of vengeance against an inconstant lover, and of disappointment to a rival." The man who had authored the Declaration of Independence was writing to the man who would author the Bill of Rights—to warn of the woman scorned, crying rape.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.

W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Like the moon, you're only good and visible a few days a month. Exerting influence, pulling up whitecaps. The rest of time falling away, cut up into parts and nobody knows where you are.

A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.

A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever

La Luna cambia, varía, se muestra y se oculta –asintió la Echadora de Cartas–. La Luna es engañosa. Ella es, en gran medida, la responsable del estado de confusión del Loco.

I have lost all faith in the steadfastness of human resolves.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.

All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.