Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/kk02yrtg · ★★☆☆ Fair (166 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
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/0tuizhv2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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/ggsm1y50 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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/klzpgkqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
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/tcptnzkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/atei0hjc · ★★☆☆ Fair (892 ratings) · submitted 1997
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to work.
tiny.ag/swonymzt · ★★☆☆ Fair (571 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well done is better than well said.
tiny.ag/lqexisvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (2837 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way round is through.
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