“When you rest, you rust.” — Oscar de la Renta
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.” — Oliver Herford
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” — Robert Frost
“Intelligence is like four-wheel drive; it only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.” — Garrison Keillor
“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.” — Aesop
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Why would they have book covers if we aren’t supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.” — Ingrid Weir
“How soon not now, becomes never.” — Martin Luther
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.” — Pablo Neruda
“What people believe prevails over the truth.” — Sophocles
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.” — H.L. Mencken
“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” — Bette Davis
“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.” — Stanislaw Lec
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” — Agnes de Mille
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” — Doug Larson
“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” — Yiddish Proverb
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Stop talking the moment when you find that you are not being heard.” — Vikrant Parsai
“Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.” — Dave James
“Guests bring good luck with them.” — Turkish Proverb
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” — Marie Curie
“…Memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them.” — Hal Boyle
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
** NOTE ** — STATUS QUOtes will be on hiatus for several days. We will resume with quotes and quips on November 28, 2016!
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.” — Larry Page
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” — Francis of Assisi
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau
“If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.” — Ogden Nash
“Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped-over and kicked.” — Proverb
“A Stone is broken by the last stroke of Hammer. This doesn’t mean that the 1st Stroke is useless. Success is the result of continuous and persistent efforts!.” — Unknown
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown
“A salad is not a meal. It is a style.” — Fran Lebowitz
“Be the person who leaves a mark, not a scar.” — Unknown
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
“I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.” — Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
“All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.” — Steve Martin
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” — Ray Bradbury
“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.” — John Irving
“I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. YOU get better.” — Joan Rivers
“I had an out a body experience once and when I returned someone else was there.” — Tom Zegan