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# Weekend Words: Tip
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-tip/
- Published: 2016-05-15T13:30:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:24.000Z
- Description: "Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

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Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, “The Eastern Tip of Ile Saint-Louis” (1757), oil on canvas, 47 x 85 cm, Musée Carnavalet, Paris (image via Web Gallery of Art) (click to enlarge)

The nationwide chain [Joe’s Crab Shack](http://www.joescrabshack.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) rescinded its “no tip” policy because customers believe their gratuities encourage good service and they didn’t trust the company to pass along the sum included in the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)***