#perpetual

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

The world is but a perpetual see-saw. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#world

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#door #perpetually #side #wrong

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#good #hell #holiday #perpetual #working

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#always #been #bit #i #perpetual

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#change #exempt #flux #law #little

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#age #busy #busyness #coincide #come