Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/rfwbcxnu · submitted 1997
God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
tiny.ag/51wy2e6t · submitted (updated 23:20)
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
tiny.ag/xadsxg7n · submitted 1997
First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/nculh4pd · submitted 1997
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
tiny.ag/7en31ycm · submitted 1997
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8 · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
tiny.ag/lfgwyibv · submitted 1997
Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · 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/dpsm3a6e · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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/qxbfoafe · submitted 1997
Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
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/qwlroxym · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · 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/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
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