CHANGE

Related Subjects: Adaptability, Consistency, Constancy, Conversion, Fickleness, Novelty, Revolution, Variety

1. The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.—BACON, Of Vicissitudes of Things
   

2. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.—BACON
   

3. I detest all change,
   And most a change in aught I loved long since.—BROWNING, Paracelsus
   

4. Today is not yesterday. We ourselves change. How then, can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same. Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful ; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.—CARLYLE
   

5. The world is a scene of changes; to be constant in nature were inconstancy.—ABRAHAM COWLEY
   

6. Perfection is immutable, but for things imperfect, to change is the way to perfect them. Constancy without knowledge cannot be always good; and in things ill, it is not virtue but an absolute vice.—OWEN FELTHAM
   

7. Most of the change we think we see in life
   Is due to truths being in and out of favour.—ROBERT FROST, The Black Cottage
   

8. Matters change and morals change; men remain.—GALSWORTHY
   

9. All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward.—ELLEN GLASGOW, I Believe
   

10. What I possess I would gladly retain Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.—GOETHE
    

11. Thus times do shift,—each thing his turn does hold;
    New things succeed, as former things grow Old.—ROBERT HERRICK, Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve
    

12. Human nature does not change, or, at any rate, history is too short for any changes to be perceptible. The earliest known specimens of art and literature are still comprehensible. In the fine arts it is only the convention, the form, the incidentals that change: the fundamentals of passion, of intellect and imagination remain unaltered.—ALDOUS HUXLEY, Do What You Will
    

13. Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
    

14. We have changed all that.—MOLIERE, Le Medecin Malgre Lui
    

15. Is't possible that so short a time can alter the condition of a man?—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

16. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
    Naught may endure but Mutability.—SHELLEY, Mutability
    

17. But Times do change and move continually.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
    

18. The ever-whirling wheele
    Of Change, the which all mortall things doth sway.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
    

19. In this world of change naught which comes stays, and naught which
    goes is lost.—MME. SWETCHINE
    

20. The old order changeth, yielding place to new;
    And God fulfils himself in many ways,
    Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.—TENNYSON, Morte D'Arthur