Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/veiyrnvp · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · submitted 1997
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
tiny.ag/qyerpit3 · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/kk02yrtg · 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 · 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 · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
tiny.ag/lqexisvl · submitted 1997
The only way round is through.
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/upvjznor · 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/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/ggsm1y50 · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · 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 · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/swonymzt · submitted 1997
Well done is better than well said.
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