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• "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
  By: Margaret Mead
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• "All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast."
  By: Andre Maurois
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• "Everything that is created is changed by the laws of man; the earth does not know itself in the revolution of years; even the races of man assume various forms in the course of ages. [Lat., Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata, Nec se cognoscunt errae vertentibus annis, Et mutant variam faciem per saecula gentes.]"
  By: Manilius (Manlius or Mallius) (Marcus or Caius), Astronomica (515)
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• "Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky, Dreary the leaf lieth low. All things must come to the earth by and by, Out of which all things grow."
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), The Wanderer--Earth's Havings (bk. III)
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• "Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!"
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto II, st. 3)
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• "Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs. [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]"
  By: Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), De Rerum Natura (IV, 1,129), translated in Byron's "Childe Harold", canto I., st. 82
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• "But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right; Things have been mended that were worse, And the worse, the nearer they are to mend."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Baron of St. Castine (l. 265)
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• "All things must change To something new, to something strange."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Keramos (l. 32)
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• "I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap."
  By: Abraham Lincoln, to a delegation of the National Union League on his second nomination
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• "Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time."
  By: Charles Godfrey Leland, Many in One (pt. II, st. 21)
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• "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
  By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres.]"
  By: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (II, 18)
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• "The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
  By: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"), The Rubaiyat (st. 71), (FitzGerald's translation)
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• "To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
  By: Helen Adams Keller
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• "He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), The Idler (no. 57)
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• "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worst to better."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Dictionary of the English Language (preface)
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