Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/sectwkrh · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · submitted 1997
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/dpsm3a6e · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/lfgwyibv · submitted 1997
Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8 · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
tiny.ag/7en31ycm · submitted 1997
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
tiny.ag/nculh4pd · submitted 1997
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
tiny.ag/wbfvn5e9 · submitted 1997
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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/nyqgzd3d · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/lsxp5q2w · submitted 1997
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
tiny.ag/yqsvb7xj · submitted 1997
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/x1qgalmq · 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 · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
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