Quotations About / On: CHANGE

  • 1.
    A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
    (Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, writer. Quoted in New York Times (July 5, 1954).)
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  • 2.
    I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.
    (Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Lucy (Irene Dunne), The Awful Truth, after witnessing the specialty act of nightclub performer Dixie Bell Lee—ne Toots Binswanger (Joyce Compton) (1937).)
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  • 3.
    The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
    (Max Lerner (b. 1902), U.S. author, columnist. repr. in The Unfinished Country, pt. 1 (1959). "Fifty," New York Post (December 18, 1952).)
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  • 4.
    When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
    (Lucius Cary Falkland, 2nd Viscount (1610-1643), British statesman, soldier, patron. speech, Nov. 22, 1641, to the House of Commons. "A Speech Concerning Episcopacy," Discourses on the Infallibility of the Church of Rome (1660).)
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  • 5.
    We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
    (Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist. Trans. by Scott Monkrieff (1930). "The Sweet Cheat Gone," vol. 11, ch. 1, Remembrance of Things Past (1925).)
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  • 6.
    We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 7.
    Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
    (Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by Lorenzo O'Rourke. "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907).)
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  • 8.
    Things do not change; we change.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 361, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 9.
    Any solution to a problem changes the problem.
    (R.W. (Richard William) Johnson (b. 1916), U.S. journalist, newspaper executive. Washingtonian (November 1979).)
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  • 10.
    Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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