Philander Chase Johnson famous quotes

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
-- Philander Chase Johnson

#Monkeys #Machinery

The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong. The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray. So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream You've an army at hand; your command is supreme; And question yourself, as it goes on review-- Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?
-- Philander Chase Johnson

#Dream #Strong #Moving

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.
-- Philander Chase Johnson

#Distance #Beer #Men

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.