Quote by Katharine Whitehorn

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Summary

This quote implies that individuals who are nice or kind may not always be successful in certain practical or competitive situations. Specifically, it suggests that being polite or well-mannered doesn't necessarily make someone more skillful at getting taxis. It highlights the contrast between being a "nice" person and being proficient or assertive in achieving personal goals, in this case, hailing a taxi.

Topics

By Katharine Whitehorn

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed wi

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Gary Ryan Blair

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departu

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I gues

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only i

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens

Inactivity is death.

Inactivity is death.

Benito Mussolini

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living plea

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your th

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Alone Mom Mothers Day Child Thoughts Think