I am not quite sure what the wording is but it goes something like, "How fickle is mankind." I have been using this saying for years but I do not have any idea where it originated from. Does anyone know anything about it?

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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
~ Niccolo Machiavelli ~

Mel-in-Tex
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." -Charlotte Bronte

Well, I didn't get anything solid.

'Man is fickle when he beholdeth a courtesan; he then hath a special desire for love's play, and can in no way be restrained. On meeting her he loseth his human birth. Bereft of his religion he falleth into hell, where he undergoeth punishment and profusely lamenteth. Wherefore look not on her, but pass thy time among the holy.'
http://www.sacred-texts.com/skh/tsr1/tsr108.htm

though man is fickle, God is perfect in his glory
www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=cson2smile

Man is in the universe and the universe is in man. man is the greatest of animals.
Mind in man is fickle. In man, both this world and the next, merge. ...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22man+is+fickle%22&meta=

Thus, advancing from virtue to virtue, he might reach the summit of perfection. Hence it flows that man is fickle in doing evil, namely, he cannot persevere in it because he does not find repose in it. Therefore, instead of persisting in evildoing, he moves to do good; and moreover, since creatures did not give him peace, he returns to God.
http://www.catholic-church.org/barnabites/b44doc02.html

Gustave leBon: "The crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual ... The mob man is fickle, credulous and intolerant, showing the violence and ferocity of primitive beings .. women, children, savages, and lower classes, operating under the influence of the spinal cord." (1895)
http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/revision/882.html

Acts 14:19: Mentioned in 2 Cor. 11:25. Amazing! One moment, they want to worship you, the next, kill you. Man is fickle!
http://hf.heartland.net/studies/acts.htm

A dead thing without a motion; it is soundless. A living thing has the delusion of sound; it has "consciousness". Conscious creatures have impression and movements. Creatures, conscious of sound, have the delusion of sound. They have the Light of Brahma in them. Consciousness of creatures is Light. Men know the distinction between justice and injustice. Lower animals have no distinction of such a sort. Man stands at the head of all creation. There is nothing impossible for man, in this world. Mind in man is fickle. In man, both this world and the next, merge. Shiva-Loka is the third (divine) eye. The Shiva-nerve is the Sushumna nerve, also called the Brahma-nerve. The Lord of Shiva-Loka is nothing but Shiva-Shakti (Shiva's energy). What is Maya is in Shiva. Shiva is not in Maya. Creation and destruction are both Maya caused by Him. In the great Self, every thing becomes latent - Effect, Soul, Manas, Brahma, Waking consciousness, Taraka, Sleep, extreme ignorance and the whole of the external world.
http://www.swaminityanandbhagwan.com/verse161_180.htm

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes.
Meg Greenfield (1930 - 1999) US journalist
In Newsweek, 1991.


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I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?".
Jesus answered, "This much"
as He stretched His arms and died on the cross for me.
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