Quotes About Adaptation

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.