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Quotes About Change

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.
~ John Donne
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
~ John Galsworthy
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
~ John Muir
There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.
~ John Steinbeck
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
~ Jonathan Swift
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
~ Larry McMurtry
I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
~ Sharon Shinn
No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.
~ Stephen Charnock
Man is a degeneration of what he was.
~ Swami Vivekananda
[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Age will flatten a man.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
~ Vera Farmiga
Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
~ Vince Neil
Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
~ William Carlos Williams
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
~ Chinua Achebe
It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
~ Christopher Morley
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
~ Clarence Darrow
I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
~ Demetri Martin
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
~ Edward Abbey
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.
~ Fred Reed
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
~ Garrison Keillor
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
~ George Bernard Shaw