“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —
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Today’s STATUS QUOtes
“A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.” — Chinese Proverb
“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.” — Charlotte Brontë
“Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.” — Smiley Blanton
“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” — Doug Larson
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Quote about the situation in Ukraine: “If the United Nations has any purpose, it is to prevent war, it is to condemn war, to stop war. That is our job here today. It is the job you were sent here to do – not just by your capitals, but by all of humanity.” — Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.””
— Marlene Dietrich —
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