Michel de Montaigne

STATUS QUOtes — 20231217

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

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“Acorns were good till bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” — Émile Zola

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20221003

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

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“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.” — Bobby Sands

“When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.” — Bertrand Russell

“One half of the world fears stagnation and the other half change.” — Marty Rubin

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.” — Margaret Mead

“Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, ‘Somebody else’s.'” — Michel de Montaigne

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20220217

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

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“You can’t expect to win unless you know why you lose.” — Benjamin Lipson

“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer, because people online are more interested in criticizing people than helping them.” — Gurwinder Bhogal

“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.” — Michel de Montaigne

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, ‘What about me?’ and you can just hear the universe replying, ‘Well, what about you?'” — Terry Pratchett

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200822

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

 

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“The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Simply put: Whenever we have conflicting desires, being good gives us permission to be a little bit bad.” — Kelly McGonigal

“You have the brushes, you have the colors, paint the paradise and go inside.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

“It’s not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.” — Steven Wright

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200717

Jeff

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

 

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“We all need a place that we can go, and feel over the rainbow.” — Amos Lee

“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?’ ‘Supposing it didn’t,’ said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.” — A. A. Milne

“Every person bears the whole stamp of the human condition.” — Michel de Montaigne

“I like to be in pain when I’m getting massaged. That way I know I’m getting my money’s worth.” — Alison Brie

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20190114

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“If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.” — Peter McWilliams

“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Love is when someone gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing [ed].” — Torquato Tasso

“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.” — Dennis Roch

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181227

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“Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.” — Ovid

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.” — Harriet Martineau

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.” — Wilson Mizner

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181121

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“Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.” — William Blake

“My home… It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.” — Michel de Montaigne

“You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.” — Michael Beckwith

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….” — William Faulkner

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180622

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“Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence.” — Vince Lombardi

“Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Yesterday was the longest day of the year — but anymore, every day is [ed].” — Chuck Palahniuk

“Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.” — Artemus Ward

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180528

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.” — Homer

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.” — Kathleen Casey Theisen

“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.” — Michel de Montaigne

“A gossip columnist is someone who uses dirt to make a mountain out of a molehill.” — Alfred E. Neuman

 
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