A Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

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Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish - Writer
May 19, 1794 - March 17, 1860

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.

Ed Helms

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

John Burroughs

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

George Ade

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

Oliver Herford

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

Jim Carrey

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.

Carol Tavris

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

Charles Dickens

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

A rolling loan gathers no loss.

Kyle Bass

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Publilius Syrus

The heart that gives, gathers.

Marianne Moore

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

Thomas Tusser

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

George R. R. Martin

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

Evan Harris

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.

Richard Sibbes

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