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Matters change and morals change; men remain. - John Galsworthy We must be the change we wish to see. - Indira Gandhi Be the change you wish to see in the world. - "Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What I possess I would gladly retain; change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable. - Franceso Guicciardini People change and forget to tell each other. - Lillian Hellman All is flux, nothing stays still. - Heraclitus of Ephesus No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus of Ephesus You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. - Heraclitus of Ephesus Everything flows and nothing stays. - Heraclitus of Ephesus, Cratylus (402a) Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. - Herodotus ("Father of History") Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., How not to Settle It Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 192), (Pope's translation) A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher? [Lat., Amphora coepit Instituti; currente rota cur urceus exit?] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (XXI) If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. [Lat., Non si male nunc et olim Sic erit.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (II, 10, 17) Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (III, 29, 13) I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (IV, 1, 3) He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles. [Lat., Diruit aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 1, 100) With what know shall I hold this Proteus, who so often changes his countenance? [Lat., Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 1, 90) He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 1, 98) The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 14, 43) God perchance will by a happy change restore these things to a settled condition. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (XIII, 7) There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. - Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller (preface) Displaying page 3 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7
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