WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg attachments – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 ~Other -- Carol Tavris, Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, ch. 4 (1982) https://wist.info/other/25391/ https://wist.info/other/25391/#respond Mon, 19 May 2014 14:09:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=25391 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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