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  • A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

  • In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  • Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

    Space   Pioneers   Wagons  
  • I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

    Art   Media   Squares  
    Song: Buffalo River Home
  • I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

    Fall   Chinese   Machines  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

    Writing   Blood   Bottles  
  • Where food trucks are concerned, nothing's better than having a whole flock of them at one location. Competition not only improves the quality of the food, it prompts these rolling lunch wagons to lower prices and offer specials, too.

    "The Fantastic Food Carts of Wall Street’s Hanover Square". ny.eater.com. September 22, 2014.
  • Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

    Horse   Nfl   Worry  
  • My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

    Horse   Soul   Desire  
    Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925.
  • I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

    Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv
  • People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

    Stars   Eye   Sky  
    George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.22, Ravenio Books
  • I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.

    Pyramids   Band   Wagons  
  • The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

    Gun   Car   Risk  
  • The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

    1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA
  • Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

    Artist   Berries   Wagons  
  • [My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

    Father   Men   Land  
    Source: www.encyclopedia.com
  • Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

    "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.
  • In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

    Business   Track   Wagons  
    H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.217, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

    Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”
  • The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

    Watches   Frozen   Earth  
    Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.79, A&C Black
  • It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

    Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois
  • There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

  • Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station wagon, which they abandoned 2 blocks later because none of them could drive a stick shift. Where would I be without such people?

    New York   Block   Jewels  
  • Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

  • I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

    Dream   Country   Fashion  
  • The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

    Men   Thinking   Doe  
  • I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

  • Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  • Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

    GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431
  • Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.

    Team   People   Leader  
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