Work and Recreation

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt, in Work and Recreation

Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.

E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tsu, in Work and Recreation

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tsu, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.

Doug Larson, in Work and Recreation

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

Doug Larson, in Work and Recreation

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

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling, in Work and Recreation

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln, in Work and Recreation

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 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

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon, 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

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

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

Bryan Munro, in Work and Recreation