Joseph Monninger Quotes

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

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• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Airplane

• I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

  

  Olga Broumas
  • Goal
  • Lying
  • Impulse

• It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Spiritual

• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Hate
  • Perfect
  • Stupid

• From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Broken
  • Firsts
  • Security

• If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Stop
  • Kill

• It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.

  

  Cathy Cassidy
  • Fingers
  • Electricity

• The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Long
  • Together
  • Running

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  

  Jim Moran
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Swimming

• The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Surface
  • Swim
  • First Opinion

• If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Trying
  • Water
  • Cold

• When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

  

  Joseph Monninger
  • Swim
  • Jet
  • Trout