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Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .
To that read more
Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .
To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .
Sabbathless Satan!
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y read more
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of read more
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
