Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/cwh4nfsu · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
tiny.ag/gjpds4m8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
If only I could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything.
tiny.ag/piw4y7md · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
tiny.ag/qxbfoafe · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
tiny.ag/xadsxg7n · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.
tiny.ag/51wy2e6t · ★★☆☆ Fair (754 ratings) · submitted (updated 7:20)
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/rfwbcxnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
tiny.ag/ximercsy · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
Unknown, (German proverb), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/milcq4ya · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.
tiny.ag/k4nebyuf · ★★☆☆ Fair (814 ratings) · 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/myqpc8fj · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/h7w28305 · ★★☆☆ Fair (193 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ugvde1cx · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
tiny.ag/v0yeshan · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.
tiny.ag/t1qexukp · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
Holt's Law: All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
tiny.ag/dmjofbk9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (941 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
tiny.ag/eckozapq · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qyerpit3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1006 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
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