WORK

Related Subjects: Business, Deeds, Effort, Employment, Industry, Labor, Occupation, Sweat, Wages

1. Work and pray, live on hay,
   You'll get pie, in the sky,
   When you die—
   It's a lie!—Anonymous, Song of the I.W.W.
   

2. He works and blows the coals
   And has plenty of other irons in the fire.—ARISTOPHANES, The Acharnians
   

3. Thou renderest to every man according to his work.—Bible, Psalms 62:12
   

4. Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.—Bible, Psalms 90:17
   

5. Every man's work shall be made manifest.—Bible, I Corinthians 3:13
   

6. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.—Bible, 2 Timothy 2:15
   

7. Everyone has a mass of bad work in him which he will have to work off and get rid of before he can do better—and indeed, the more lasting a man's ultimate good work, the more sure he is to pass through a time, and perhaps a very long one, in which there seems very little hope for him at all. We must all sow our spiritual wild oats.—SAMUEL BUTLER, The Way of All Flesh
   

8. All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads and sows itself anew.—CARLYLE,
   On Boswell's Life of Johnson
   

9. All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. .. . A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.—CARLYLE, Past and Present
   

10. The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

11. Work thou for pleasure—paint, or sing, or carve
    The thing thou lovest, though the body starve—
    Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
    Who works for money coins his very soul.
    Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be
    That these things shall be added unto thee.—KENYON COX, Work
    

12. Work, and thou wilt Mess the day Ere the toil be done;
    They that work not, can not pray, Can not feel the sun.—J. S. DWIGHT, Rest
    

13. The time will come when every kind of work will be judged by two measurements : one by the product itself, as is now done, and the other by the effect of the work on the producer.—A. H. EATON
    

14. Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, "I know that he can toil terribly," is an electric touch.—EMERSON, Representative Men
    

15. Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.—EURIPIDES, Licymnius
    

16. Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.—B. C. FORBES, Forbes' Epigrams
    

17. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
    

18. You do de pullin', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin'.—JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS,
    Uncle Remus
    

19. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, Letter
    

20. By the work one knows the workman.—LA FONTAINE, Fables
    

21. Who first invented work, and bound the free
    And holiday-rejoicing spirit down
    To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?—CHARLES LAMB, Work
    

22. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.—LINCOLN
    

23. No man is born into the world whose work
    Is not born with him; there is always work
    And tools to work withal, for those who will;
    And blessed are the horny hands of toil.—LOWELL, A Glance Behind the Curtain
    

24. At the end of work, you may judge of the workman.—Proverb
    

25. Account not that work slavery that brings in penny savory.—Proverb
    

26. It is working that makes a workman.—Proverb
    

27. Not to oversee workmen, is to leave them your purse open.—Proverb
    

28. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.—Proverb
    

29. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.—Proverb
    

30. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.—RUSKIN, Pre-Raphaelitism
    

31. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.—MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    

32. This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;
    Of all who live, I am the one by whom
    This work can best be done in the right way.—HENRY VAN DYKE, The Three Best Things
    

33. Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.—WHISTLER