Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
Tommy Shaw
Musician
"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
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"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
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"Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both."
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"O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle."
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"Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion."
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"A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)"
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"Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject."
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"For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion"
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"I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry."
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"Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay."
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"I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again."
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"I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow."
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"Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived."
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"Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain."
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"...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded."
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"The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are."
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"The most fundamental seems fickle."
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"A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever."
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"Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle."
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"With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy."
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"To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master."
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