Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/rgpxjajw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/h30nvlal · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
tiny.ag/lkeuhfbn · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/upvjznor · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/ggsm1y50 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/zjurgdnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · ★★☆☆ Fair (1049 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3392 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/kwzypjqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (475 ratings) · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (826 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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