Only one of these was actually from another person’s status. In other words, these are quotes I would put on my own Gchat status message. Basically, I found these quotes interesting.

When we like people, for some sad reason, we can convince ourselves that it is reciprocal, no matter how obvious the truth is to everyone else.

“Social Q’s,” by Philip Galanes

Surely puns silence conversation before they animate it. Some stricken with pun-lust sink so far into their infirmity that their minds become trained to lie in wait for words on which to work their wickedness.

“Puns for the Ages,” by Joseph Tartakovsky

strangely enough, or perhaps not strangely at all, people were thoroughly satisfied, which would lead one to believe that what readers really craved was not so much the contents of books, magazines, and papers as the assurance that they were not missing anything.

“IRTNOG,” by E. B. White

it doesn’t seem unreasonable to think that if you want to live like a Whole-Foods-shopping San Franciscan Democrat, you need somebody, somewhere, to procreate like a megachurch-attending Republican.

“Who’s afraid of low birthrates?” by Ross Douthat