Weekend Words: Tip
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
The nationwide chain Joe’s Crab Shack rescinded its “no tip” policy because customers believe their gratuities encourage good service and they didn’t trust the company to pass along the sum included in the bill.
Ninotchka: Why should you carry other people’s bags?
Porter: Well, that’s my business, Madame.
Ninotchka: That’s no business. That’s social injustice.
Porter: That depends on the tip.
—Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, Ninotchka
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip.
—Samuel Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.
—Arnold Palmer
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
—Ray Bradbury
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
—Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue’s thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross.
—Anne Spencer, Letter to My Sister
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Some tips for life:
1.Don’t be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid.
2.Be kind to people.
3.Don’t get too excited when you read The Fountainhead
4.In times of recession, it is time for invention.
5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.
—Eugene Mirman, Lexington High School Commencement Speech, 2009
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
—Rabindranath Tagore
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
—Lao-Tzu
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
—Roland Barthes
I wonder if it isn’t just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
—Will Rogers
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes
Doorman — a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
—Dorothy Kilgallen
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. — TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.
Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
