Quotes
Quotes about Work
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledgeâthey will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation -Rainer Maria Rilke.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
