Quotes About Change

Men must go out of their minds.

Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.

The man just is, but clothes are becoming.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

Men make history, not the other way around.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.