A Quote by George Ade

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

George Ade

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George Ade
American - Playwright
February 9, 1866 - May 16, 1944

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

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

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

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Oliver Herford

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

Jim Carrey

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Ernest Shackleton

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Tusser

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

Evan Harris

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

Publilius Syrus

If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

Carine Roitfeld

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Sylvia Earle

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