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Quotations
 | They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 25 likes |
 | In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 11 likes |
 | Security breeds stagnation. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 7 likes |
 | All children, except one, grow up. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer ‐ Peter Pan 7 likes |
 | There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 6 likes |
 | In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 5 likes |
 | Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | All religions are based on obsolete terminology. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
| Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 4 likes |
 | Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 4 likes |
 | Doing the same thing for too long, in the same place, at the same time, makes you old. — Christian Bobin, 1951-2022, French writer 4 likes |
 | He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
| Expect poison from the standing water. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
 | The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. — Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016, American boxer 1 likes |
 | A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
| Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
 | Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | Everything influences me, nothing changes me. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 1 likes |
 | I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
| Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
 | You cannot save people. You can only love them. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 1 likes |
 | Happiness always hides a disturbing element: the unhappiness of stagnancy. — Christine Orban, 1954-, French writer 1 likes |
 | The trouble with a mask is it never changes. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Always the same. Semper idem. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 66 likes |
 | He who does not advance, goes backwards. Quinon proficit deficit. 48 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes. — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 2 likes |
 | We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | He who sees the present has seen everything that ever was and will be. All things are of one kind and form. Ο τα νυν ιδών πάντα εώρακεν, όσα τε εξ αϊδίου εγένετο και όσα εις το άπειρον έσται. Πάντα γαρ ομογενή και ομοειδή. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor 1 likes |
