“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” — Yiddish Proverb
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Stop talking the moment when you find that you are not being heard.” — Vikrant Parsai
“Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.” — Dave James
“Guests bring good luck with them.” — Turkish Proverb
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” — Marie Curie
“…Memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them.” — Hal Boyle
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
** NOTE ** — STATUS QUOtes will be on hiatus for several days. We will resume with quotes and quips on November 28, 2016!
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.” — Larry Page
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” — Francis of Assisi
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau
“If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.” — Ogden Nash
“Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped-over and kicked.” — Proverb
“A Stone is broken by the last stroke of Hammer. This doesn’t mean that the 1st Stroke is useless. Success is the result of continuous and persistent efforts!.” — Unknown
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown
“A salad is not a meal. It is a style.” — Fran Lebowitz
“Be the person who leaves a mark, not a scar.” — Unknown
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
“I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.” — Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
“All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.” — Steve Martin
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” — Ray Bradbury
“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.” — John Irving
“I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. YOU get better.” — Joan Rivers
“I had an out a body experience once and when I returned someone else was there.” — Tom Zegan
“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.” — David Hume
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” — Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” — Bill Vaughn
“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” — Vince Lombardi
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” — Dennis Waitley
“If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.” — Leonard Cohen
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln
“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.” — Elsa Maxwell
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It’s well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being rediscovered with great excitement.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“When information goes ‘in one ear and out the other,’it’s often because it doesn’t have anything to stick to.” — Joshua Foer
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.” — Orison Swett Marden
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
“The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.” — Wendell Willkie
“Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.” — Tom Waits