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Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (l. 585), The Merchant's Tale Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 321) Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be-- From the ways of the tapestry weavers On the other side of the sea. - Anson G. Chester, Tapestry Weavers To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Acad. Quoest. (bk. IV, 29, 95) All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing-- And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Work Without Hope (st. 1) Work is much more fun than fun. - Noel Coward It is the primal curse, but softened into mercy, made the pledge of cheerful days and nights without a groan. - William Cowper Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve-- Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee. - Kenyon Cox, Our Motto Better to wear out than to rust out. - Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough (1), to one who urged him not to wear himself with work You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. - Theodore Ledyard Cuyler Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. - Eugene Delacroix We work not only to produce but to give value to time. - Eugene Delacroix To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. - John Dewey He just went out and did his job every day. - Bill Dickey, talking about Lou Gehrig I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through." - Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Lord had a Job All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. - quoted by Maria Edgeworth, Henry and Lucy (vol. II) Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. - Dwight David Eisenhower 'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"), Corn Law Rhymes (no. 7) A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quatrains--Nature My work is a game, a very serious game. - M.C. Escher Displaying page 3 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9
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