Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

STATUS QUOtes — 20240104

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.” — Giovanni Niccolini

“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.” — Robert Maclver

“If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.” — 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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STATUS QUOtes — 20180703

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.” — Salvador Dali

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” — Milton Friedman, American economist

“I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.” — Lewis Thomas

 
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