Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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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/klzpgkqd · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
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/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · 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/und8ojtl · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/zjurgdnl · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/mwkuerjp · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/cpaduz0t · submitted 1997
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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