“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 524
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Busted Stuff
Busted Stuff (2002)
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 524
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
“4057. Rolling Stones gather no Moss.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.”
Henry Wotton (1568–1639) English ambassador
Preface to the Elements of Architecture (1624).
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
And It Stoned Me
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
“Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.”
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 2, “Witch Cults of Whitemarsh” (p. 26)