Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/hkkreg0l · submitted 1997
A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
tiny.ag/5fjxbdkr · submitted 1997
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
tiny.ag/eckozapq · submitted 1997
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
tiny.ag/h7w28305 · submitted 1997
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/k4nebyuf · submitted 1999 by Austin Holmes
Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.
tiny.ag/qxbfoafe · submitted 1997
Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
tiny.ag/mwkuerjp · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/cpaduz0t · submitted 1997
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/3uxqwbaj · submitted 1997
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/vfh9sa41 · submitted 1997
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
tiny.ag/kyj5oc1q · submitted 1997
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
tiny.ag/ocikwgsj · submitted 1997
Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
tiny.ag/nqsn2fb1 · submitted 1997
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
tiny.ag/su6pcweg · submitted 1997
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
tiny.ag/tzsry6n4 · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
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