(1269 quotes found)
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”
Mark Twain
“Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not”
Oscar Wilde
“It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.”
“Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.”
Voltaire
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
“Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.”
Mae West
“I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life”
“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative”
