Quotations by Subject

Adapted Quotes & Sayings

These famous adapted quotes and adapted sayings from our inspirational words of wisdom collection.

 

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. - Saint Thomas Aquinas


We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. - Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi


There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey; This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army; This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers. - Sun Tzu


A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. - Elias Canetti


Golf is a game in which one endeavours to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. - Woodrow Wilson


Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. - Henry V. Miller


Envy: Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce

::: Credits Feel free to borrow from our collection - in moderation and please correctly acknowledge the author and source of all material. © Just-Quotes 2006-2010. All Rights Reserved.  Copyright Notice  Privacy Policy