Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/lfkbz3xn · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
tiny.ag/yif1p5kz · ★★☆☆ Fair (963 ratings) · submitted 1999
The early bird catches the worm.
tiny.ag/ltngvuik · ★★☆☆ Fair (235 ratings) · submitted 1997
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Unknown, (The Talmud), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/y2wjstfn · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997
The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.
tiny.ag/8wyy0jwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman
Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.
Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/cdzh2i5q · ★★☆☆ Fair (205 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
tiny.ag/sectwkrh · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · submitted 1997
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/3xgs0jwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (196 ratings) · submitted 1997
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
tiny.ag/me4bnv2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
tiny.ag/dpsm3a6e · ★★☆☆ Fair (916 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (1649 ratings) · submitted 1999
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
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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