Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

While it would be lovely to play well every week, that is simply not going to happen.

You never know with me. I change my mind like I change my job. And I do that very often.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.