Work and Laziness

"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good."

Pat Bradley

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Education

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I am never in such good company as when I am alone; I am never so busy as when I have nothing to do."

Scipio Africanus

Family and Loneliness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An Artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Emile Zola

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Power and Weakness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

Henri Matisse

Happiness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

Robert A. Heinlein

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."

William Jennings Bryan

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"No rules for success will work if you don't."

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Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Napoleon Hill

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done."

Peter Drucker

Authority, Government

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

God and Religion

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?"

John Clarke

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

God and Religion

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"

William Morris "News From Nowhere"

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."

Floyd Dell

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

John C. Dvorak

Science and Technology

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Ogden Nash

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw "Parents and Children"

Happiness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The shortest answer is doing."

English Proverbs

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged."

St. Jerome "Epistulae"

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

John Lennon

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

Marlene Dietrich "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare.""

C. Northcote Parkinson

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Pain and Tears

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Revolt of the Masses"

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form."

André Maurois "The Art of Living"

Work and Laziness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Health and Alcohol

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

Robert Lee Frost

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Louisa May Alcott

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

Mary Wilson Little

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Andrew Carnegie

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."

Robert Bringle

Envy

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage and Fear

Talent and Genius

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Jim Rohn

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"One generation plants trees, another gets the shade."

Chinese Proverbs

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Chinese Proverbs

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."

Jewish Proverbs

Dreams and Desires

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

Arabic Proverbs

God and Religion

Knowledge, Ignorance

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year."

Spanish Proverbs

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)