STATUS QUOtes — 20160523

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.” — Confucius

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.” — Saskya Pandita

“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” — Robert Brault

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.” — Oliver Herford

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160309

“A good anvil does not fear the hammer.” — Unknown

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” — Agnes de Mille

“To pursue a new idea, one must sometimes forfeit their deposit on an old idea [ed].” — Robert Brault

“I was raised as an only child… which really annoyed my sister.” — Will Marsh

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160228

“Sometimes you have to be your own hero.” — Mirage

“When you have money in your hand, only you forget who you are. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forgets who you are.” — Bill Gates

“Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.” — Robert Brault

“Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.” — Harry Truman

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160125

“It’s all a mistake…until it works.” — Seth Godin

“Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.” — Robert Brault

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

“I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question.” — Yogi Berra

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160114

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” — Victor Hugo

“Happiness is a mysterious thing to be found somewhere between too little and too much.” — Ruskin Bond

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” — Robert Brault

“It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.” — Ben Bergor

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20151014

“Our fingerprints never fade from the lives we touch.” — Gandhi

“Fair and softly goes far.” — Miguel de Cervantes

“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.” — Abraham Verghese

“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.” — Robert Brault

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150830

“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” — Robert Brault

“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but it still has to be mowed.” — Anonymous

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150409

“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.” — C.S. Lewis

“Just because you got the monkey off your back, doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” — George Carlin

“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” — Robert Brault

“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” — Tom Lehrer

STATUS QUOtes — 20150126

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” — Sam Ewing

“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” — Robert Brault

“I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.” — Doug MacLeod

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