Quotes About Adaptation

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Want, the mistress of invention.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Every new time will give its law.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

London is a roost, for every bird.

Man is a tool-using animal.

What once were vices are now manners.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

Irene Claremont de Castillego

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.