Marcel Proust

STATUS QUOtes — 20221023

Jeff

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

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“He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.” — Tucker Elliot

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” — Marcel Proust

“Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water?… try spelling Evian backward.” — George Carlin

 

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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 — 20210801: Quotes x Quotes

Jeff

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

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“One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.” — Marcel Proust

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A beautiful verse, an apt remark, or a well-turned phrase, appropriately quoted, is always effective and charming.” — Marie de Vichy-Chamrond

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210111

Jeff

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

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“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.” — Mitch Albom

“Gutenberg made printed books affordable, which kicked off an increase in literacy, which created a market for spectacles, which led to work on lenses that in turn resulted in the invention of microscopes and telescopes, which unleashed the discovery that the earth went round the sun.” — Matt Ridley

“The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.” — Marcel Proust

“Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.” — Charles de Gaulle

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20201127

Jeff

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

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“It’s often very expensive to think out loud.” — Minna Thomas Antrim

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.” — Marcel Proust

“Never confuse someone else’s inability to do something with its inability to be done.” — Steve Maraboli

“What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?” — Steven Wright

 

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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 — 20201109

Jeff

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

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“If it happens, it happens… We can’t stop living.” — Walter Reed

“Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.” — Marcel Proust

“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.” — Alan Cooper

“Breaking up is like knocking over a coke machine. You can’t do it in one push, you got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.” — Jerry Seinfeld

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200628

Jeff

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“A good message will always find a messenger.” — Amelia Barr

“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.” — Marcel Proust

“A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.” — Bertolt Brecht

“People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.” — Anton Chekhov

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200612

Jeff

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“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” — Miles Franklin

“He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don’t build them that way anymore. He’s also been repainted several times.” — Theodore White

“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.” — Marcel Proust

“I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.” — Dorothy Parker

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190224

Jeff

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“Criticizing another’s garden doesn’t keep the weeds out of your own.” — Unknown

“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.” — Og Mandino

“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ” — Marcel Proust

“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?” — Steven Wright

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180206

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.” — Paulo Coelho

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” — Martin Rees (The Yale Book of Quotations)

“The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.” — Marcel Proust

“Hors d’oeuvres: A sandwich cut into 20 pieces.” — Unknown

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171213

Jeff

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“Opportunities are seldom labeled.” — John H. Shield

“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.” — Marcel Proust

“Don’t be afraid to burn a few bridges if it will stop the drama from following you.” — Unknown

“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.” — Stanislaw Lec

 
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