Quotes About Change

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.