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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
If you're not first, you're last.
When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'
Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
There's never a new fashion but it's old.