Quotes about Novelty

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.

The Holy Spirit is God eternally giving himself; like a never-ending spring he pours forth nothing less than himself. In view of this ceaseless gift, we come to see the limitations of all that perishes, the folly of the consumerist mindset. We begin to understand why the quest for novelty leaves us unsatisfied and wanting. Are we not looking for an eternal gift? For the spring that will never run dry?

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety

If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.