Nicolas Gomez Davila

STATUS QUOtes — 20230228

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.” — Greg Gilbert

“It has become the habit of some to declare their rights in order to neglect their duties [ed].” — Nicolas Gomez Davila

“The effort that we put into something does not just change the object. It changes us and the way we evaluate that object. Greater labor leads to greater love. Our overvaluation of the things we make runs so deep that we assume that others share our biased perspective.” — Dan Ariely

“Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet; they should be the luckiest animals in the world.” — Eddie Izzard

 

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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 — 20230128

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” — Jean-Luc Godard

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn’t know.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.” — W. Somerset Maugham

“It’s good to know that there’s a fine line between an ‘outfit’ and a ‘getup.'” — Linda Merkin

 

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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 — 20210905

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.” — William F. Scolavino

“Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.” — Nicolas Gomez Davila

“I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says, ‘Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.’ I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.” — Harry S. Truman

“The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.” — D. O. Flynn

 

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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 — 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 — 20200529

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.” — James A. Garfield

“It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn’t happen very often.” — Amy Bloom

“There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.” — Nicolas Gomez Davila

“Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures – of these, 3,000 are in existence.” — Wilhelm Bode

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200526

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.” — Ernest Hemingway

“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that they are judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality [ed].” — Arnold Bennett

“Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.” — Nicolas Gomez Davila

“So I was eating this cereal, and I had all these questions and comments; luckily there was a number on the box.” — Demetri Martin

 

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