domenica 9 marzo 2008

Saggezza popolare e il cambiamento: alcuni proverbi internazionali

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. Richard Hooker

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving

There is no way to make people like change. You can only make them feel less threatened by it. Frederick Hayes

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. George Kettering

There is nothing permanent except change. Greek Proverb

Times change and we change with them. Latin proverb

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we are headed. Chinese proverb

Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change. Arabic proverb

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