John Steinbeck

STATUS QUOtes — 20240224

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You can’t make a race horse of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig [ed].” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden” — John Steinbeck

“That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you — without you asking.” — Adriana Trigiani

“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.” — J. P. Morgan

 

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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 — 20221027

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” — John Steinbeck

“You’ve been paid for by people who never even saw your face. Your mother’s mother, your father’s father. And so it behooves you to prepare yourself so you can pay for someone else yet to come. Whose name you’ll never know. You just keep the good thing going.” — Maya Angelou

“You don’t get to choose your obsessions; your obsessions choose you.” — John Irving

“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do – well, that’s Memoirs.” — Will Rogers

 

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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 — 20220510

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” — Francis H. Bradley

“To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.” — Albert Schweitzer

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” — John Steinbeck

“Usually when I’m stressed, I’ll eat everything not nailed down. Only small children and family pets are safe. And okra – I won’t eat okra under any circumstances.” — Sue Ann Jaffarian

 

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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 — 20220110

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” — Joan Didion

“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey.” — John Steinbeck

“Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It’s knowing what’s right.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

“Not only don’t I know what tomorrow will bring, I’m still not entirely certain what yesterday brought.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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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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Q.U.O.T.E. [Quotes Up On The Edge] – 20211226

Jeff

 

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Today’s Q.U.O.T.E. – 20211226

 

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.” — John Steinbeck

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community … but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots” — Umberto Eco

“The United States is, not are. The Civil War was fought over a verb.” — Carl Sandburg

“Before criticizing your spouse’s faults, remember that those faults may have prevented them from getting someone better [ed].” — Anonymous

 

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What’s the difference between STATUS QUOtes and Q.U.O.T.E. (Quotes Up On The Edge)

If you happen to follow STATUS QUOtes on a regular basis, you might have noticed that controversial topics are largely avoided.

As a quotation enthusiast, I felt there was a need for a space with quotes that would resonate with readers and which, by the nature of the quote or the person quoted, might cut a bit closer to the bone than those on the STATUS QUOte pages.

That’s where Q.U.O.T.E. – Quotes Up On The Edge comes in. These pages, unlike STATUS QUOtes, will not be published on a daily or regular basis. When there has been an ample number of witticisms, timely remarks, irreverent humor, etc. to gather an interesting compilation, they will appear on JBRish.com

If this is your “cup of tea,” check back often! Please do not comment about the topics and/or opinions; they are not necessarily those of JBRish. If you have something to say that would enlighten viewers regarding the meaning of the quotation or quip, then please feel free to chime in.


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STATUS QUOtes — 20210109

Jeff

“To be amused by what you read —
that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
— C. E. Montague —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.” — John Steinbeck

“All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it.” — Freya Stark

“Swimming against the current is not stupid, if the waters are flowing toward a waterfall.” — Nicolas Gomez Davila

“The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.” — Fulton’s Law of Gravity

 

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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 — 20201207

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.” — John Steinbeck

“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and at times—and this is the worst of all—before we have new ones.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.” — Earl Warren

“I was in a restaurant that had a sign that said ‘Restrooms For Customers Only.’ I thought … it must be difficult for those who work there.” — Demetri Martin

 

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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 — 20201004

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“To be alive at all is to have scars.” — John Steinbeck

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett

“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms — appetite, passion and wish.” — Aristotle

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.” — Joseph Dunninger

 

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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 — 20190807

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.” — Albert Camus

“Miracles happen quietly every day – in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.” — Mitch Albom

“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” — John Steinbeck

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, ‘Have you read…'” — Wilson Mizner

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190608

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.” — Garrison Keillor

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it’s complicated.” — John Steinbeck

“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” — Mark Twain

“The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.” — Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard

 

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