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To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. - John Milton, Lycidas (l. 193) In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 597) Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their places, but believe not that man changes his nature. - Mohammed (Mahomet) We have changed all that. [Fr., Nous avons change tout cela.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Medeccin Malgre lui (II, 6) Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Of Vanity (bk. III, ch. IX) All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. - Thomas Moore, National Airs--All That's Bright Must Fade Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change! - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. - Kathleen Norris (nee Kathleen Thompson and wife of C.G. Norris) All things change, nothing perishes. [Lat., Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (XV, 165) My merry, merry, merry roundelay, Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! - George Peele, Cupid's Curse; From the Arraignment of Paris See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath and die.) - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 15) Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, pt. II) Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, pt. II) Till Peter's keys come christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan born. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 109) We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. - Marcel Proust Turned the pigs into the grass. [Fr., Tournoit les truies au foin.] - Francois Rabelais, Gargantua, a phrase meaning to change the subject We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [Lat., Corporis et fortunae bonorum ut initium finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et orta senescunt.] - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Jugurtha (II) Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. - John Faucit Saville Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. - Arthur Schopenhauer With every change his features play'd, As aspens show the light and shade. - Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto III, st. 5) As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. - Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto VI, st. 2) When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true. - Sir Charles Sedley, Reasons for Constancy I must not think there are Evils enow to darken all his goodness: His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary Rather than purchased, what he cannot change Than what he chooses. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Lepidus at I, iv) Displaying page 5 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7
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