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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
?UnattributedOften credited to Dorothy Parker
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
?UnattributedOften credited to John Adams
Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.
?Unattributed
Why are people’s “deepest desires” always so shallow?
?Unattributed
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
?Unattributed
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
?UnattributedOften credited to William Ralph Inge
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
?UnattributedOften credited to Emily Dickinson
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
?UnattributedOften credited to Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
?UnattributedOften credited to Charles Darwin
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
John Updike1932–2009
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
John Updike1932–2009Bech, A Book (1970)
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike1932–2009The New Yorker (30 July 1990)
- Art
- Change
The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
- Change
- Technology
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519