#Novelty Quotes

“We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.”

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”

“What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!”

“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon.”

“We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.”

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”

“Happiness never becomes a habit.”

“Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.”

“There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.”

“After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.”

“Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

“Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.”

“As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.”

“Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.”

“The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.”

“The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.”

“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.”

“Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things”

“Novelties please less than they impress.”

“It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.”