A change of front. [ French ]
Honours change manners.
All things human change. [ Tennyson ]
I am not what I once was. [ Horace ]
Dignities change men's morals.
Nought may endure but mutability. [ Shelley ]
Change generally pleases the rich. [ Horace ]
Change of pasture makes fat calves. [ Proverb ]
To change sides; become a turncoat. [ Proverb ]
Cities seldom change religion only. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Revolutions are not made; they come. [ Wendell Phillips ]
I am not now That which I have been. [ Byron ]
Change, change, - we all covet change. [ Chamfort ]
Times change, and we change with them. [ Kaiser Lothar I ]
Time's waters will not ebb nor stay;
Power cannot change them, but Love may;
What cannot be, Love counts it done. [ Keble ]
Taste may change, but inclination never. [ La Roche ]
A change came over the spirit of my dream. [ Byron ]
Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain. [ Dryden ]
Against change of fortune set a bold heart. [ French Proverb ]
Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits. [ Goethe ]
Characters are developed, and never change. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. [ Shelley ]
To the mind,
Which is itself, no changes bring surprise. [ Byron ]
All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral;
Our instruments, to melancholy bells;
Our wedding cheer, to sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns, to sullen dirges change:
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary. [ William Shakespeare ]
Change of weather is the discourse of fools. [ Proverb ]
May widows wed as often as they can,
And ever for the better change their man;
And some devouring plague pursue their lives,
Who will not well be governed by their wives. [ Dryden ]
See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]
None are happy but by anticipation of change. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss,
Who often removeth is suer of loss. [ Tusser ]
Fortune does not change men: it unmasks them. [ Mme. Necker ]
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoken can never be recalled. [ Roscommon ]
For use almost can change the stamp of nature. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind.
Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. [ Pope ]
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. [ Robert Browning ]
I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow. [ Robert Browning ]
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes,
Tenets with books and principles with times. [ Pope ]
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. [ Byron ]
Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind;
He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind. [ John Dryden ]
Change yourself, and your fortune will change too. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. [ Spenser ]
Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.
The sleeping partner of life - a change of existence. [ Paul Chatfield ]
Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! [ Lord Lytton ]
To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. [ Buckle ]
This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds to age. [ Cicero ]
It is no advantage for a man in a fever to change his bed. [ Proverb ]
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. [ Lowell ]
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him! [ Voltaire ]
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. [ Emerson ]
He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles. [ Horace ]
All things must change to something new, to something strange. [ Longfellow ]
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [ Tacitus ]
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]
Accident ever varies; substance can never suffer change or decay. [ Wm. Blake ]
The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of change. [ Tennyson ]
To change, and to change for the better, are two different things. [ German Proverb ]
Passing away
is written on the world, and all the world contains). [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. [ Waller ]
Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same. [ Mme. de Flahaut ]
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [ Cicero ]
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. [ Confucius ]
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. [ Tennyson ]
I will not change my cottage in possession for a palace in reversion. [ Proverb ]
Then came your new friend: you began to change - I saw it and grieved. [ Tennyson ]
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [ Horace ]
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. [ Pope ]
Characters never change. Opinions alter, - characters are only developed. [ Disraeli ]
Mutability is of this world; in that which is to come there is no change. [ St. Ambrose ]
As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]
With every change his features played, as aspens show the light and shade. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.
The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy. [ Cowley ]
Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
In this world of change, nought which comes stays, and nought which goes is lost. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
What I possess I would gladly retain; change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. [ Goethe ]
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words. [ George Eliot ]
The change of seasons pleaseth nature, and the mutability of riches delighteth fortune. [ Boetius ]
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. [ Richter ]
This is an art which does mend nature, - change it rather; but the art itself is nature. [ William Shakespeare ]
To swear to love always is to affirm that two beings essentially changeable will never change.
The change of fashions is the tax that the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. [ Dante ]
It will be found that they are the weakest winded and the hardest hearted men that most love change. [ Ruskin ]
Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed. [ Ruskin ]
It is rare that, after having given the key of her heart, a woman does not change the lock the day after. [ Sainte-Beuve ]
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [ Cicero ]
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, - one dog does not change a bone with another. [ Adam Smith ]
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. [ Lew Wallace ]
I change my place, but not my company. While here I have sometimes walked with God, and now I go to rest with Him. [ Dr. Preston ]
Character, like porcelain ware, must be printed before it is glazed. There can be no change after it is burned in. [ Beecher ]
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of food, variety supplies both with fresh appetite. [ Quintilian ]
Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain. [ Johnson ]
Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. [ Saville ]
The influence of custom is incalculable; dress a boy as a man and he will at once change his own conception of himself. [ Bayle St. John ]
Permanence is what I advocate in all human relations; nomadism, continual change, is prohibitory of any good whatsoever. [ Carlyle ]
There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. [ Ovid ]
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. [ Beaconsfield ]
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. [ Chamfort ]
It does not take twenty years for men to change their opinions of things which had seemed to them the truest, and most certain. [ La Bruyere ]
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. [ John Ruskin ]
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]
In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other, - fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other. [ Thoreau ]
Great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. [ Fielding ]
There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, contingent, transitory, almost as liable to change as the winds and waves that waft it to our shores. [ Colton ]
Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. [ Swift ]
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change. [ John Ruskin ]
Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. [ De Finod ]
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]
Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]
No belief of ours will change the facts or reverse the laws of the spiritual universe; and it is our first business to discover the laws and to learn how the facts stand. [ Dr. Dale ]
In human life there is a constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]
With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. [ Macaulay ]
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? [ Yogi Berra ]
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]
All the means of action, the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius! [ Longfellow ]
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. [ Ruskin ]
The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations. [ Henry Giles ]
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]