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A woman's work is never done. Proverb
The way to be safe is never to be secure. Proverb
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. Proverb
Things at the worst will mend. Proverb
A stitch in time saves nine. Proverb
One hour today is worth two tomorrow. Proverb
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. Proverb
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing. Proverb
Lookers-on see most of the game. Proverb
Who is more busy than he that hath least to do? Proverb
A servant's too often an impudent elf; - If it's business of consequence, do it yourself!R. H. Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends, The Ingoldsby Penance, Moral
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. The Bible, Ecclesiastes, 9, 10
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Corporation
Coward, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Coward
Enthusiasm, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzymuzy," had a relapse which carried him off - to Missolonghi. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Enthusiasm
Honest, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in his dealing. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Honest
Leisure, n. Lucid intervals in a disordered life.THE JUDGE: You lazy dog! all industry you shirk As 'twere a crime - why don't you go to work? THE TOUGH CITIZEN: I'm always planning to, but, may it please your Honor, I do never get the leisure.Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Leisure
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Opportunity
Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.A pessimist applied to God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist."
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Opportunity
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Patience
Principle, n. A thing which too many people confound with interest. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Principle
Relief, n. Waking up early on a cold morning to find that it's Sunday. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Relief
Resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Resolute
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. P. D. S. Chesterfield, 4th Earl of, Letter to his Son, 10 March 1746
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Discipline, V
O my friends, there are resources in us on which we have not drawn. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, - demanding not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice, - comes graceful and beloved as a bride. Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge. Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands. We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties, or they will not be born. Manual labor is the study of the external world. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read Before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, New England Reformers
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. W. Hazlitt, On Prejudice
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. J. K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, Ch. 15
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. S. Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1777
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, 1066 And All That, Test Paper 5
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To business that we love we rise betime, And go to't with delight.W. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4, 4, 20
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1, 5, 189
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part One, 1, 2, 197
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part Two, 2, 4, 250
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king?W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part Two, 3, 1, 26
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.W. Shakespeare, King Lear, 1, 4, 347
The worst is not So long as we can say "This is the worst".W. Shakespeare, King Lear, 4, 1, 28
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?W. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 1, 1, 278
That which in mean men we entitle patience Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.W. Shakespeare, Richard the Second, 1, 2, 33
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.W. Shakespeare, Richard the Third, 4, 4, 358
Not to be abed after midnight is to be up betimes.W. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 2, 3, 1
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. G. B. Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra, Act 3
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?P. B. Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, 66
I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. S. Smith, Letter to Arthur Kinglake, 30. Sept. 1837
I consider the world as made for me, not me for the world. T. G. Smollett, Roderick Random, Ch. 45
Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one. W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. R. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, An Apology for Idlers
Pas trop de zèle. [Not too much zeal.] C. M. de Talleyrand (Attributed)
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. J. Thurber, Fables for Our Time, The Shrike and the Chipmunks
I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months. A. Ward (C. Farrar Browne), Pyrotechny
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