COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Author | Authors by Date | | |||
How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span. - Unattributed Author, from a manuscript of the fifteenth century in the British Museum All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle The real essence of work is concentrated energy. - Walter Bagehot When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? - John Ball, Wat Tyler's Rebellion Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. - Honore de Balzac Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - Sir James Matthew Barrie No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - Max Beerbohm Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. - Robert Benchley All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 8) Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 1-3) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. - Bible, Genesis (ch. III, v. 19) Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. - Bible, I Corinthians (ch. III, v. 12-13) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. - Bible, II Thessalonians (ch. III, v. 10) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. - Bible, II Timothy (ch. II, v. 15) Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CIV, v. 23) Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands. - William Blake, Proverbs Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, L'art Poetique (l. 171) The dog that trots about finds a bone. - George Henry Borrow, Bible in Spain (ch. XLVII), (cited as a gypsy saying) The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done. - Berton Braley, No Chance Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary--or a stool To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion where you lean And sleep, and dream of something we are not, But would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 465) Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 164) Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 78) Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII, l. 784) And still be doing, never done. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204) Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
|
|
