Quotes About Adaptation

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

No wonder can last more than three days.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

From a fallen tree, make kindling.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

"Oh, well," mused the young doctor, "it's too late to cry over spilt coffee — or an unwise decision."

No blubbering over spilt wine.

Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions!

If your boot is too tight, walk barefoot.

Water does not cross over holes; it must first fill the hole before it can move on.

A dog has four legs but can't run on four paths at the same time.

There is nothing hot that will not get cold.