Reform Quotes

Reform Quotes & Sayings

These reform quotes and reform sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: 'In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.' - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. - Elbert Green Hubbard


The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress. - Bertrand Russell


Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't marry a man to reform him, that's what reform schools are for. - Mae West


Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. - Robert Green Ingersoll


The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi


The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. - Gloria Swanson


To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. - George Santayana