REFORM AND REFORMERS

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Censorship, Fanaticism, Improvement, Morality, Prudery, Reformation, Tolerance

1. It does not matter so much who holds the office. It is the reforms that are important.—WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
   

2. In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

3. Every reform however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need rming.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
   

4. Turn over a new leaf.—THOMAS DEKKER, The Honest Whore
   

5. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.—THOMAS A KEMPIS, Of the Imitation of Christ
   

6. It is easier to bear what's amiss, than go about to reform it.Proverb
   

7. The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Autobiography
   

8. First Player: I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir.
   
   Hamlet: O, reform it altogether.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

9. I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake; not because it isn't a good thing to improve the world if you know how to do it, but because striving and struggling is the worst way you could set about doing anything.—BERNARD SHAW, Cashel Byron's Profession
    

11. There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good, myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.—STEVENSON
    

12. Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar