Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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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/1j7y2lxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
tiny.ag/fdy85ooy · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (715 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/1jlvnd7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
tiny.ag/egcfrh1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
tiny.ag/w4pngtxm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1364 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
tiny.ag/ucgatbjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
tiny.ag/x1qgalmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
tiny.ag/i632izqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
tiny.ag/ttmfo8x5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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/nyqgzd3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (130 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/lkeuhfbn · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
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