Best stones & moss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.”

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Book:Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].

Source: Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].

“A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.”

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Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.”

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Book:The Quit

Source: The Quit

“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”

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Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.”

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Author:Ed Helms

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Book:The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.”

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Author:Carol Tavris

“The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.”

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Book:Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Source: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

“A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.”

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Author:Oliver Herford

“The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.”

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Author:John Burroughs

“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.”

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Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.”

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Author:Anna Katharine Green

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