Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ttmfo8x5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/x1qgalmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
tiny.ag/i632izqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
tiny.ag/w4pngtxm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1364 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
tiny.ag/ucgatbjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
tiny.ag/egcfrh1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
tiny.ag/imptt3kq · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/brwg7szk · ★★☆☆ Fair (526 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nmt3rb5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
My work is a game -- a very serious game.
tiny.ag/poux0n5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
tiny.ag/vpwdae8j · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/swonymzt · ★★☆☆ Fair (571 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well done is better than well said.
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