Oliver Wendell Holmes

STATUS QUOtes — 20240301

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

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“Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.” — James Fenimore Cooper

“Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.” — John le Carré

“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.” — Anne Lamott

“Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20201112

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“The rain falls on all the fields, but crops grow only in those that have been tilled and sown.” — Chinese Proverb

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” — Steve Jobs

“If you want to be a leader with a large following, just obey the speed limit on a winding, two-lane road.” — Charles Farr

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191121

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“This is America and here right matters.” — Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” — Ann Landers

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” — Neil Gaiman

“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190922

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” — Mother Teresa

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.” — Haruki Murakami

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.” — Beryl Bainbridge

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190228

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.” — E. B. White

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.” — Agatha Christie

“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.” — G.K. Chesterton

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180411

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” — Deepak Chopra

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.” — Bill Ayers

“Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs.” — Alec Baldwin

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170928

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It hurts because it matters.” — John Green

“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.” — Christopher Reeve

“Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There goes the famous good time that was had by all.” — Bette Davis

 
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STATUS QUOtes — Picture Quote — 20170714

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Today’s Picture Quote

The Amen of nature is always a flower. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. –
– Photograph ©Jeffrey B. Ross –

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Photo Meta Data

File Name: DSC_0520.NEF
Capture time: 5:11 PM
Capture date: August 13, 2016
Exposure: 1/60 @ f5
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO: 140
Nikon D3300
Location: Nature walk in Flagstaff, AZ

*Edited: Lightroom with text added in OS X Preview

NOTE – The picture above was submitted for sale to a stock photography site (just one) and it was rejected because it lacked “commercial interest.” and that may be. I still like the photo, however, and I want to share it with you. I hope you like it as much as I do.

I thought it was an exemplar of the Holmes quote!

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20151006

Jeff

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.” — Robert Frost

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” — George Lorimer

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?” — Harry S. Truman

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150602

Jeff

“Freedom begins between the ears.” — Edward Abbey

“We all get the same amount of ice. The problem is some of us get it during the summer while others receive it in the winter.[ed]” — William ‘Bat’ Masterson

“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” — Doug Larson