Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/yqsvb7xj · submitted 1997
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/ey8g1nc6 · submitted 1997
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
tiny.ag/rgpxjajw · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · 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/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/npf5ywfi · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/nyqgzd3d · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · 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/lkeuhfbn · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
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/ggsm1y50 · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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