Work and Recreation

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

 Woodrow Wilson, in  Work and Recreation

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

 Charlie McCarthy, in  Success and Failure and  Work and Recreation

A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.

 Unknown, in  Work and Recreation

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

 Havelock Ellis, in  Work and Recreation

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

 Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in  Work and Recreation

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

 P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Work and Recreation

He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.

 Bryan Munro, in  Work and Recreation

The early bird catches the worm.

 Unknown, in  Work and Recreation

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Work and Recreation

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

 Ron Leemans, in  Work and Recreation

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

 Unknown, in  Work and Recreation

Z-man's Law: When the paper is due, the printer will jam.

 Jason Zalinger, in  Work and Recreation

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

 Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in  Work and Recreation

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

 Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in  Work and Recreation

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

 Plato, The Republic, in  Work and Recreation

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in  Work and Recreation

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

 Frank Herbert, Dune, in  Work and Recreation

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in  Work and Recreation

Necessity is the mother of invention.

 Plato, The Republic, in  Success and Failure and  Work and Recreation

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

 Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in  Science and Religion and  Work and Recreation