Quotes
Quotes about Man
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be masterâthat's all.".
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.
When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing.
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.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.
The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]
Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly.
Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. [Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Moglichste getan hat.]
When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede, Where was then the pride of man, That nowe merres his mede?
Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned; Him with the woodman's axe that thrills The wilderness profound.
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
Light is the task when many share the toil.
When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his quart and said, "My work is done, I'll go to bed." "My work is done!" retorted Joan, "My work is done! Your constant tone, But hapless woman ne'er can say 'My work is done' till judgment day."
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hand of toil!
