How Paper Beats Rock

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. - Neil Armstrong

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - Juan Ramon Jimenez

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials. - Will Rogers

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. - Daphne Zuniga

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. - Gustav Mahler

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Samuel Goldwyn

A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Samuel Goldwyn

NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. - Mitch Hedberg

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic? - Jay Leno

I can forget and you can forget, but a piece of paper never forgets. - Unknown

Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. - Rex Reed

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. - Carl Perkins

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

If life gives you a bowl of lemons, go find an annoying guy with paper cuts. - Unknown

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. - Sidney Sheldon

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Petrarch

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. - Mahesh Yogi

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. - Jerry Brown

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. - Jeremy Grantham

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. - John Cleveland

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. - Ernest Hemingway

We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks. - Sioux Proverb

France is a country where the money falls apart but you can't tear the toilet paper. - Billy Wilder

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. - George Burns

Mathematics is the cheapest science. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and a paper. - George Polya

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off. - Pat Paulsen

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. - Sherman Alexie

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. - Arthur Christopher Benson

I'm readin' in the paper where the CIA is dopin' people up. Maybe somebody injected some of that LSD in the lady's cottage cheese. - Archie Bunker