Fresh Quotes

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. (Seneca)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. View quote
Euripides
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. View quote
Mary Pickford
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. View quote
John Updike
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. View quote
Alice Walker
If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward. View quote
Li Hongzhi
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. View quote
George MacDonald
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. View quote
Lord Byron
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. View quote
James Hillman
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. View quote
John Woolman
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. View quote
Boris Johnson
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. View quote
Joseph Addison
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. View quote
Julia Child
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. (Gerald Durrell)
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. View quote
David Brin
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. View quote
William Cowper
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. View quote
Alexander Smith
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