Rudyard Kipling

STATUS QUOtes — 20211223

Jeff

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

***************
NOTE: No STATUS QUOtes on 12/25/22

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.” — Herman Wouk

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own [person] is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Rudyard Kipling

“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen — and improbable things happen — all the time.” — Howard Marks

“I like to reminisce with people I don’t know… granted, it takes longer.” — Steven Wright

 

***************

“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 —

 
See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

 
**********

All original content on this blog is copyrighted by Jeffrey B. Ross with ALL Rights Reserved. While reference links back to JBRish.com are appreciated and encouraged, please acquire approval for any reproduction of original content from this website.

©Jeffrey B. Ross 2014 – 2021 — JBRish.com


STATUS QUOtes — 20200627

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.” — Randy Pausch

“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.” — Dwight Eisenhower

“Honey, tact is for people who aren’t witty enough to be sarcastic.” — Megan Mullally

 

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

 

**********

All original content on this blog is copyrighted by Jeffrey B. Ross with ALL Rights Reserved. While reference links back to JBRish.com are appreciated and encouraged, please acquire approval for any reproduction of original content from this website.

©Jeffrey B. Ross 2014 – 2020 — JBRish.com


STATUS QUOtes — 20190611

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.” — Arthur Rimbaud

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it…” — Rudyard Kipling, If ( read the long version HERE) **

“‘I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,’ said Pooh.’There there,’ said Piglet. ‘I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.'” — A.A. Milne

“Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.” — Audrey Hepburn


**********

** NOTE: The poem’s line, “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same,” is written on the wall of the players’ entrance at Wimbledon.

 

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

 

**********

All original content on this blog is copyrighted by Jeffrey B. Ross with ALL Rights Reserved. While reference links back to JBRish.com are appreciated and encouraged, please acquire approval for any reproduction of original content from this website.

©Jeffrey B. Ross 2014 – 2019 — JBRish.com


STATUS QUOtes — 20170504

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.” — Zen Proverb

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” — Ralph K. Sockman

“For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?” — Stanislaw Lec

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

STATUS QUOtes — 20170326

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It is easy to give an example, but it’s very difficult to become an example.” — Unknown

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.” — Rudyard Kipling

“You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.” — Paul “Bear” Bryant

“When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.” — Isaac Asimov

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

STATUS QUOtes — 20170226

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.” — Rudyard Kipling

“It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice.” — Leo Tolstoy

“Work while they sleep. Learn while they party. Save while they spend. Live like they dream.” — Unknown

“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.” — Archibald Alexander

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

STATUS QUOtes — 20170126

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

“The nail that sticks up is certain to be hammered down.” — Japanese Proverb

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” — Mary Tyler Moore

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” — Rudyard Kipling

“A modest man, with much to be modest about.” — Winston Churchill (description of Clement Atlee)

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE


Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

STATUS QUOtes — 20161228

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

“In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.” — Eric Schmidt

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.” — Rudyard Kipling

“It is a sad regret to have searched for the truth and settled for an answer.” — Robert Brault

“You’re not really famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.” — Carrie Fisher

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE

STATUS QUOtes — 20160725

Jeff

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Somebody said to me not too long ago, ‘Until you’re twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve’, and I really loved that – the idea that you wear who you are on your face.” — Jennifer Lopez

“Fun is about as good a habit as there is.” — Jimmy Buffet

“I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.” — Agatha Christie

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

See previous STATUS QUOtes HERE