A. C. Benson

STATUS QUOtes — 20201217

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?” — Miguel de Cervantes

“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.” — Lionel Trilling

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.” — A. C. Benson

“When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, ‘I wish he was my kid for one day!’”  — Milton Berle

 

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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 — 20191106

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.” — Alice Hoffman

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.” — A. C. Benson

“I was the best man at the wedding; if I’m the best man, why is she marrying him?” — Jerry Seinfeld

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190722

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.” — Bernard Meltzer

“Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!” — A. C. Benson

“The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.” — Paul Newman

“I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, ‘My God, they’re purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?’ And he said, ‘Mister, I don’t sell to fish.'” — Charles T. Munger

 

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