A.A. Milne

STATUS QUOtes — 20240515

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” — Abraham Maslow

“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.” — Gottfried Leibntz, philosopher and mathematician

 

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“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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STATUS QUOtes — 20240130

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Fairness is what justice really is.” — Potter Stewart, Former Justice of the Supreme Court

“The causes of mistakes are ‘I didn’t know’; ‘I didn’t think’; and ‘I didn’t care.'” — Henry H. Buckley

“The purpose of a compensation system should not be to get the right behaviors from the wrong people, but to get the right people on the bus in the first place, and to keep them there.” — Jim Collins

“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” — A.A. Milne

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230718

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.” — Peter Drucker

“So, if you just keep stirring the pot and stirring the pot, that alone you will run out of unluck.” — Naval Ravikant

“The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional.  On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement.  And that obsession with improvement stems from an unerring belief that they are, in fact, not that great at all.  It’s anti-entitlement.” — Mark Manson

“If the English language had been properly organized … then there would be a word which meant both ‘he’ and ‘she’, and I could write, ‘If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis’, which would save a lot of trouble.” — A.A. Milne

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230330

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.” — Max Ehrmann

“The same principle leads us to neglect a person of merit that induces us to admire a fool [ed].” — Jean de La Bruyère

“Before beginning a hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.” — A.A. Milne

“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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“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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STATUS QUOtes — 20201102

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.” — Washington Allston

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” — A.A. Milne

“This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.” — Mitch Albom

“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.” — Milton Friedman

 

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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.
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STATUS QUOtes — 20201014

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” — Ernest Hemingway

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” — A.A. Milne

“There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.” — J.J. Procter

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” — Khalil Gibran

 

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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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STATUS QUOtes — 20200717

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“We all need a place that we can go, and feel over the rainbow.” — Amos Lee

“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?’ ‘Supposing it didn’t,’ said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.” — A. A. Milne

“Every person bears the whole stamp of the human condition.” — Michel de Montaigne

“I like to be in pain when I’m getting massaged. That way I know I’m getting my money’s worth.” — Alison Brie

 
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New Golf Quotes, Quips, Etc. Added – 20200414

Jeff

Three new golf quotes have been added to the JBRish Golf Quotes page. If you enjoy golf or even if you don’t, I think you will find them amusing and interesting. Today’s quotes are from Laura Baugh, A.A. Milne and John Updike.

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191204

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.” — Ayn Rand

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.” — A. A. Milne

“You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.” — Abba Eban

“A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.” — Joseph Weizenbaum

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190827

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.” — James W. Fulbright

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” — A. A. Milne

“They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.” — Augustus William Hare

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it’.” — Jerome K. Jerome

 

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