#fashions

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#aside #fantastic #fashions #first #hold

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#knows #man #only #present #true

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. ↗

— Hesiod

#does #evil #fashions #himself #mischief

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#around #better #even #fashions #good

When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#public-opinion #sociology #trends #sociology

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#clive #extinguishers #fashions #lewis #staples

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fashions #ideals #worldviews #zeitgeist #men

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#change #come #customs #fashions #go

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#between #civil #civil rights #contradiction #did