Quotes About Change

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

In a change of government, the poor change nothing but the name of their master.

If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

When the music changes, so does the dance

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

Time is the best killer.

I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.

One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same eyes-even supposing that it should improbably have remained much the same. What you have had you have had. 'The happy highways where I went, And shall not come again...' Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.

I love autumn. It's so much richer than spring.

Because this is just what a nightmare is. Walking about among people you know, looking in their faces- and suddenly the faces change- and it's not someone you know any longer- it's a stranger- a cruel stranger.

Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.