Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 Category: Conformity
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. – William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822 Category: Conformity
Life presents you with but two avenues — you can either run with the mob or from it. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) Category: Conformity
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927 Category: Conformity
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. – Phillips Brooks Category: great
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. – Jack Kemp Category: Politics
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. – Nigella Lawson Category: Christmas
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck Category: Happiness
