We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn’t turn out, we modify it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It’s an ill plan that cannot be changed.
Proverb (Latin)
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
Proverb (16th century)
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
Ellen Goodman
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In Adam’s fall
We sinned all.
In the new Adam’s rise,
We shall all reach the skies.
Henry David Thoreau, “In Adam’s Fall”
Lord, forgive Adam, for Adam is me.
Richard G. Jones, 100 Hymns for Today
Adam
Had ‘em.
Strickland Gillilan, “On the Antiquity of Microbes”
In Adam’s fall
We sinned all.
Anonymous, in Benjamin Harris, compiler and publisher, The New England Primer, 1690
Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.
