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Anything that calls itself new is doomed to a short life.
Tom wolfe (b.1931) American author, journalist.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
South.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Pascal.
The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Cowper.
The enormous influence of novelty the way in which it quickens observation, sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous; and then we are reduced to that old despair, “If water chokes, what will you drink after it?” The two points of practical wisdom in the matter are, first, to be content with as little novelty as possible at a time; and secondly, to preserve, as much as possible, the sources of novelty.
Ruskin.
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything please it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displease, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
Hume.
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. The most valuable things, if they have for a long while appeared among us, do not make any impression as they are good, but give us a distaste as they are old. But when the influence of this fantastical humor is over, the same men or things will come to be admired again, by a happy return of our good taste.
Thackeray.
All, with one consent, praise newborn gauds, though they are made and molded of things past.
Shakespeare.
New customs, though they be never so ridiculous, nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed.
Shakespeare.
Curiosity, from its nature, is a very active principle; it quickly runs over the greatest part of its objects, and soon exhausts the variety common to be met with in nature, some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Burke.
Of all the passions that possess mankind, the love of novelty rules most the mind; in search of this from realm to realm we roam, our fleets come fraught with every folly home.
Foote.
In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.
Maud.
Before I translated the New Testament out of the Greek, all longed after it; when it was done, their longing lasted scarce four weeks. Then they desired the books of Moses; when I had translated these, they had enough thereof in a short time. After that, they would have the Psalms; of these they were soon weary, and desired other books. So it will be with the book of Ecclesiastics, which they now long for, and about which I have taken great pains. All is acceptable until our giddy brains be satisfied; afterwards we let familiar things life, and seek after new.
Luther.
Tom wolfe (b.1931) American author, journalist.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
South.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Pascal.
The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Cowper.
The enormous influence of novelty the way in which it quickens observation, sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous; and then we are reduced to that old despair, “If water chokes, what will you drink after it?” The two points of practical wisdom in the matter are, first, to be content with as little novelty as possible at a time; and secondly, to preserve, as much as possible, the sources of novelty.
Ruskin.
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything please it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displease, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
Hume.
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. The most valuable things, if they have for a long while appeared among us, do not make any impression as they are good, but give us a distaste as they are old. But when the influence of this fantastical humor is over, the same men or things will come to be admired again, by a happy return of our good taste.
Thackeray.
All, with one consent, praise newborn gauds, though they are made and molded of things past.
Shakespeare.
New customs, though they be never so ridiculous, nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed.
Shakespeare.
Curiosity, from its nature, is a very active principle; it quickly runs over the greatest part of its objects, and soon exhausts the variety common to be met with in nature, some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Burke.
Of all the passions that possess mankind, the love of novelty rules most the mind; in search of this from realm to realm we roam, our fleets come fraught with every folly home.
Foote.
In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.
Maud.
Before I translated the New Testament out of the Greek, all longed after it; when it was done, their longing lasted scarce four weeks. Then they desired the books of Moses; when I had translated these, they had enough thereof in a short time. After that, they would have the Psalms; of these they were soon weary, and desired other books. So it will be with the book of Ecclesiastics, which they now long for, and about which I have taken great pains. All is acceptable until our giddy brains be satisfied; afterwards we let familiar things life, and seek after new.
Luther.
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