Work and Recreation

Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Holt's Law: All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

If only I could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything.

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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

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If you love your job, you will never have to work another day in your life.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Work and Recreation

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

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Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

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Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

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Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.

Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation