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The time I've lost in wooing  In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes  Has been my heart's undoing.
— George Moore
They dream in courtship  but in wedlock wake.
— Alexander Pope
Sigh no more  ladies  sigh no more  Men were deceivers ever  One foot in sea and one on shore  To one thing constant never.
— William Shakespeare
A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair -  (Even as you or I!)
— Rudyard Kipling
The way of an eagle in the air  the way of a serpent upon a rock  the way of a ship in the midst of the sea  and the way of a man with a maid.
— Proverbs
She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman  therefore to be won.
— William Shakespeare
O gentle Romeo  If thou dost love  pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won  I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay  So thou wilt woo: but else  not for the world.
— William Shakespeare
Words of affection  howsoe'er expressed  The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
— Joanna Baillie
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
— Edmund Burke
Words writ in waters.
— George Chapman
Fair words butter no parsnips.
— John Clarke
Mum is the word.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Words that weep  and tears that speak.
— Abraham Cowley
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
— Wentworth Dillon
Our words have wings  but fly not where we would.
— George Eliot
How forcible are right words!
— Bible
Words are feminine  deeds are masculine.
— Baltasar Gracian
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
— Bible
In the beginning was the Word  and the Word was with God  and the Word was God.
— Bible
I am not yet so lost in lexicography  as to forget that words are the daughters of earth  and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
— Rudyard Kipling
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are  the signs of our ideas only  and not for things themselves.
— John Locke
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sticks and stones may break my bones  But words can never harm me.
— Old English Rhyme
Words will build no walls.
— Plutarch
A word spoken in good season  how good it is!
— Proverbs
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
— Proverbs
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter  but war was in his heart  his words were softer than oil  yet were they drawn swords.
— Bible
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.
— Theodore Roosevelt
My word fly up  my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
— William Shakespeare
A word to the wise is sufficient.
— Terence
Man does not live by words alone  despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
— Adlai Stevenson
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world  now lies he there  And none so poor to do him reverence.
— William Shakespeare
Taffeta phrases  silken terms precise  Three-piled hyperboles  spruce affectation  Figures pedantical.
— William Shakespeare
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel  For words  like Nature  half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
He utters empty words  he utters sound without mind.
— Virgil
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
— Voltaire
For of all sad words of tongue or pen  The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
— John Greenleaf Whittier
'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe  All mimsy were the borogoves  And the mome raths out grabe.
— Lewis Carroll
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
— Charles Peguy
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
— Max Miiller
Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
— Thomas Hardy
Eloquence is the language of nature  and cannot be learned in the schools  but rhetoric is the creature of art  which he who feels least will most excel in.
— Charles Caleb Colton
For words  like Nature  half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
— Bible
If you were to make little fishes talk  they would talk like whales.
— Oliver Goldsmith
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God  and the Word was God.
— Bible
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
— Samuel Johnson
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
— Lord Byron
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone  but principally by catch words.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived  and those that are at present respectable  will drop out  if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
— Horace
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
— Nathanael West
Soft words are hard arguments.
— Thomas Fuller
Thanks to words  we have been able to rise above the brutes  and thanks to words  we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
— Aldous Huxley
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
— Dorothy Parker
The medium is the message.
— Marshall McLuhan
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh  but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword  but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
— Ecclesiasticus
The thoughtless are rarely wordless.
— Howard W. Newton
We must have a better word than "prefabricated"  why not "ready-made"?
— Winston Churchill
We must think things not words  or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand  if we are to keep to the real and the true.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Words are the small change of thought.
— Jules Renard
Words should be weighed and not counted.
— Yiddish proverb
Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts  man comes pretty close to living in a house that language built.
— Russell R. W. Smith
If a conceptual distinction is to be made  the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language  it cannot be made conceptually.
— N. R. Hanson
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
— Christian Morgenstern
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
— Thomas Hobbes
Who does not know another language  does not know his own.
— Goethe
To me  the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe  comfortable  middle-of-the road policy. Above all  our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road  is the noblest task of the future.
— Christian Morgenstern
Similes are like songs of love: They much describe  they nothing prove.
— Matthew Prior
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
— Aeschylus
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
— Max Weinreich
'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone  'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is ' said Alice  'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is ' said Humpty Dumpty  'which is to be master - that's all.'
— Lewis Carroll
The word is half his that speaks  and half his that hears it.
— Michel de Montaigne
A single word often betrays a great design.
— Jean Baptiste Racine
Words once spoken  can never be recalled.
— Wentworth Dillon
Some words are like the old Roman galleys  large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.
— William Jovanovich
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours  but the art of words exists too  and will never be less important.
— Vincent van Gogh
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
— Mark Twain
Words  like eyeglasses  blur everything that they do not make clear.
— Joseph Joubert
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
— Northrop Frye
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
— David Hare
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
More than kisses  letters mingle souls.
— John Donne
I wonder what language truck drivers are using  now that everyone is using theirs?
— Beryl Pfizer
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably  but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out  communication is getting through.
— Sydney J. Harris
The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word  'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American publisher is likewise inclined.
— R. I. Fitzhenry
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
— Blaise Pascal
Speech is civilization itself. The word  even the most contradictory word  preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
— Thomas Mann
Like stones  words are laborious and unforgiving  and the fitting of them together  like the fitting of stones  demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
— Edmund Morrison
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
— Harold Pinter
The downtrodden  who are the great creators of slang  hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.
— Anthony Burgess
Slang is language which takes off its coat  spits on its hands - and goes to work.
— Carl Sandburg
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing  it's the most exciting form of communication.
— Oren Arnold
"Plain English" - everybody loves it  demands it - from the other fellow.
— Jacques Barzun
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals  and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
— Gerald Brenan
You have to fall in love with hanging around words.
— John Ciardi
Language is the armoury of the human mind  and at once contains the trophies of its past  and the weapons of its future conquests.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyone hears only what he understands.
— Goethe
When I feel inclined to read poetry  I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language most shows a man  speak that I may see thee.
— Ben Jonson
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be  not all that could be  said.
— La Rochefoucauld
Even if language is a living evolving organism  we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive  it can get sick.
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Our language  one of our most precious natural resources  deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands  streams and whooping cranes.
— James Lipton
His words were softer than oil  yet they were drawn swords.
— Bible
Language is an inventory of human experience.
— L. W. Lockhart
Change is legitimate and inevitable  for our language is a mighty river  picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there  but growing ever wider and richer.
— Robert MacNeil
The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.
— James Reston
A word has its use  Or  like a man  it will soon have a grave.
— Edward Arlington Robinson
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark  he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
— Bertrand Russell
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
— May Sarton
Every utterance is an event  and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view  therefore  is that no word ever means the same thing twice.
— Louis B. Saloman
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed  the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey
If you can teach me a new word  I'll walk all the way to China to get it.
— Turkish proverb
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
— Friedrich Wasiman
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
— Robert Frost
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end  although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock  and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
— Thomas Fuller
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads  and sows itself anew.
— Thomas Carlyle
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
— Fairlane
Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.
— Muhammad
I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles  I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
— Jerome K. Jerome
If you want a work well done  select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
— Elbert Hubbard
Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living  and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
— Goethe
Neither snow  nor rain  nor heat  nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
— Herodotus
No task  rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.
— Woodrow Wilson
One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Anonymous
One of the saddest things is  the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day  day after day  is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day  nor make love for 8 hours.
— William Faulkner
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
— Vidal Sassoon
Routine is the god of every social system  it is the seventh heaven of business  the essential component in the success of every factory  the ideal of every statesman.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.
— Harold Wilson
They say hard work never hurt anybody  but I figure why take the chance.
— Ronald Reagan
Unionism  seldom if ever  uses such powers as it has to ensure better work  almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
— H. L. Mencken
Work is of two kinds: first  altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter  second  telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid  the second is pleasant and highly paid.
— Bertrand Russell
As a remedy against all ills - poverty  sickness  and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
— Charles Baudelaire
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
— Aldous Huxley
Most people like hard work  particularly when they're paying for it.
— Franklin P. Jones
We work to become  not to acquire.
— Elbert Hubbard
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities  then every business office  government agency  golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
— John W. Gardner
Hasten slowly  and without losing heart  put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
— Nicolas Boileau
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work  that disagreeable thing  is the only way of not suffering in life  or at all events  of suffering less.
— Charles Baudelaire
Miracles sometimes occur  but one has to work terribly hard for them.
— Chaim Weizmann
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Employment is nature's physician  and is essential to human happiness.
— Galen
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
Chance favours only those who know how to court her.
— Charles Nicolle
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
— Dagobert Runes
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength  his glory and his pleasure.
— George Sand
If a man loves the labour of his trade  apart from any question of success or fame  the gods have called him.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When white-collar people get jobs  they sell not only their time and energy  but their personalities as well. They sell by week  or month  their smiles and their kindly gestures  and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
— C. Wright Mills
He that can work is a born king of something.
— Thomas Carlyle
Love of bustle is not industry.
— Seneca
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us  or the pain against which it can protect us.
— Paul Tillich
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life  the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source  the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.
— Ayn Rand
By the work one knows the workman.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Because it is less structured than work  leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.
— Marilyn Machlowitz
Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play.
— Dr. Laurence Susser
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction  the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel  that is  as a symbol of reward and recognition  in the last analysis  of acceptance by one's fellowmen.
— Otto Rank
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive  and the true success is to labour.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
In a professional once engaged  the performance of the job comes first.
— Garson Kanin
If a little labour  little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
— Robert Herrick
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
— Oscar Wilde
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money  but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
— G. K. Chesterton
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
— Anonymous
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
— Dag Hammarskjold
God gave man work  not to burden him  but to bless him  and useful work  willingly  cheerfully  effectively done  has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.
— Walter R. Courtenay
Work is more fun than fun.
— Noel Coward
When more and more people are thrown out of work  unemployment results.
— Calvin Coolidge
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
— Raymond Queneau
We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
— Goethe
The Gods rank work above virtues.
— Hesiod
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
— Robert Benchley
It is not upon thee to finish the work  neither art thou free to abstain from it.
— The Talmud
Work banishes those three great evils  boredom  vice  and poverty.
— Voltaire
Amateurs hope. Professionals work.
— Garson Kanin
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
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
— Albert Camus
If a man will not work  he shall not eat.
— Bible
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it  deserves the attention of the United States government  and the people.
— John F. Kennedy
Work is the inevitable condition of human life  the true source of human welfare.
— Leo Tolstoy
He who shuns the millstone  shuns the meal.
— Erasmus
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
— Plutarch
God gives every bird its food  but he does not throw it into the nest.
— J. G. Holland
When your work speaks for itself  don't interrupt.
— Henry J. Kaiser
I work as my father drank.
— George Bernard Shaw
While I am busy with little things  I am not required to do greater things.
— St. Francis de Sales
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
— Cicero
A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
— George Ade
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
— William Shakespeare
I am only an average man  but  by George  I work harder at it than the average man.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure  so I did ten times more work.
— George Bernard Shaw
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
— Samuel Gompers
How do I work? I grope.
— Albert Einstein
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate  whose faithful work will answer for him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
— Theodor Reik
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
— Andri Maurois
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well  and when you find it  put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
— John D. Rockefeller III
Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.
— Mary Daly
When I can no longer create anything  I'll be done for.
— Coco Chanel
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
— Letitia Landon
When I stop [working]  the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
— Tennessee Williams
After fifty years of living  it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work  whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.
— Thomas McGuane
He who labors diligently need never despair  for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
— Menander
The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day  so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated  why  it's just as good as sex.
— Lou Centlivre
Work! Thank God for the swing of it  for the clamoring  hammering ring of it.
— Anonymous
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing  the act of work everything.
— Arthur Symons
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
— Winifred Holtby
Like plowing  housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs  milk  or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
When I die  my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.
— Gloria Swanson
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified  if he does it right.
— Bill Cosby
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small  you never know where it may lead.
— Julia Morgan
If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er  he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted  or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say  here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't be afraid of hard work.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is a kind of victory in good work  no matter how humble.
— Jack Kemp
Labor disgraces no man  unfortunately  you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
— Thomas Dekker
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
— Alistair Cooke
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it  but what he becomes by it.
— John Ruskin
Ambition is destruction  only competence matters.
— Jill Robinson
Here I am  where I ought to be.
— Louise Erdrich
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business  for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
— Marsha Sinetar
You have to do what you love to do  not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
— Lucinda Basset
Men take only their needs into consideration  never their abilities.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you're in a good profession  it's hard to get bored  because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.
— Julia Child
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things  work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.
— Eleonora Duse
One's lifework  I have learned  grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it  and first thing you know  you'll have made a life out of it. A good life  too.
— Theresa Helburn
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling  and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
— Nathaniel Emmons
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats  the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight  the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
— Sydney Smith
Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary  with a conviction that a sudden  arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void  produce a loss.
— Jenny Heynrichs
Some people are born to lift heavy weights  some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself  you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
— Katharine Hepburn
I know a lot of people think it's monotonous  down the black lines over and over  but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.
— Tracy Caulkins
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
— Augusta Evans
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me  it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
— Julie Andrews
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
— Julia Child
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary  a batch of technical skills and equipment  and  perhaps  a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things  of their complexity  fascination  and unexpectedness.
— Annie Dillard
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
— Henry David Thoreau
Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.
— Alice Koller
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
— Louise Nevelson
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
— Harriet Van Home
To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
— Katherine Graham
When love and skill work together  expect a masterpiece.
— John Ruskin
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do  and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
— Mark Twain
Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
— Maria Goeppert Mayer
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
— Mark Twain
When people go to work  they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
— Betty Bender
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
— Marilyn Machlowitz
The more I want to get something done  the less I call it work.
— Richard Bach
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
— Liz Smith
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion  and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
— Anna Pavlova
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results  it produces no results. Work  continuous work and hard work  is the only way to accomplish results that last.
— Hamilton Holt
If a man wakes up famous  he hasn't been sleeping.
— Wes Izzard
If your dream is a big dream  and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do  there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
— Joyce Chapman
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
— Nadia Comaneci
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very  very hard.
— Helen Gurley Brown
You can have unbelievable intelligence  you can have connections  you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end  hard work is the true  enduring characteristic of successful people.
— Marsha Evans
In all human affairs there are efforts  there are results  and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
— James Lane Allen
Work  alternated with needful rest  is the salvation of man or woman.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Neither woman nor man lives by work  or love  alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
— Betty Friedan
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.
— Kathy Ireland
Work is the province of cattle.
— Dorothy Parker
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
— Laura Towne
To industry  nothing is impossible.
— Latin proverb
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
— Helena Rubinstein
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
— Bonnie Blair
I realized that with hard work  the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.
— Chris Evert
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake  but as he was given to saying  it straightened out one's thoughts.
— Mary Ellen Chase
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something  one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
— William F. Buckley
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
— Lillie Langtry
Busy people are never busybodies.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
What a man sows  that shall he and his relations reap.
— Clarissa Graves
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
— Ginger Rogers
I have worked all my life  wanted to work all my life  needed to work all my life.
— Liz Carpenter
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life  and also a personal life  complete with noncompetitive leisure  has never really taken hold.
— Judith Martin
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
— Albert Camus
Whether we call it a job or a career  work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
— Anita Hill
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity  and let my efforts be known by their results.
— Emily Bronte
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
— Ann Landers
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight  But they  while their companions slept  Were toiling upward in the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
— Anna Jameson
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level  do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
— Madeleine Albright
People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.
— Lauren Bacall
Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.
— Lillian Carter
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
— Katharine Hepburn
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating  rejuvenating  exciting and satisfying.
— Kathe Kollwitz
I slept  and dreamed that life was Beauty  I woke  and found that life was Duty.
— Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Passion is never enough  neither is skill.
— Toni Morrison
It's not the having  it's the getting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
A man's work is from sun to sun  but a mother's work is never done.
— Anonymous
Be strong! We are not here to play  to dream  to drift  We have hard work to do and loads to lift  Shun not the struggle-face it  'tis God's gift.
— Maltbie D. Babcock
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly  quietly  without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath  you would stop and take a breath  you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
— Elizabeth Prentiss
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done  and do it coolly.
— Louis L'Amour
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously  and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative  and the second is disastrous.
— Margot Fonteyn
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
— William Feather
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
— Walter Lippman
There are two kinds of talents  man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent  you just touch it up once in a while.
— Pearl Bailey
If you want something done  ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do  the more you can do.
— Lucille Ball
With the power of conviction  there is no sacrifice.
— Pat Benatar
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life  time  for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain
— Rita Mae Brown
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time  the distinction between work and play dissolves.
— Shakti Gawain
Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
— Ellen Gilchrist
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it  for it is a faculty of the psyche.
— Germaine Greer
It is not hard work that is dreary  it is superficial work
— Edith Hamilton
As for me  prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
— Katharine Hepburn
There can be no substitute for work  neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
— Maria Montessori
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
— Marge Piercy
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
— Anna Howard Shaw
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
— Barbara Walters
Elbow grease is the best polish.
— English proverb
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
— Meridel Le Sueur
Ideally  couples need three lives  one for him  one for her  and one for them together.
— Jacqueline Bisset
Exchange is creation.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Whatever my individual desires were to be free  I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.
— Rosa Parks
Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand  in fact  we should have our arms around one another.
— Cloris Leachman
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
— Jeannette Rankin
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination  compromise  and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants  by compromise neither side gets what it wants  by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
— Mary Parker Follett
Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit.
— Muriel Fox
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
— Germaine Greer
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee  and just as hard to sleep after.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Cooperation is an intelligent functioning of the concept of laissez faire-a thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
— Virginia Burden Tower
Most leaders are indispensable  but to produce a major social change  many ordinary people must also be involved.
— Anne Firor Scott
Communication is a continual balancing act  juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world  we have to act in concert with others  but to survive as ourselves  rather than simply as cogs in a wheel  we have to act alone.
— Deborah Tannen
My whole life  whether it be long or short  shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.
— Queen Elizabeth II
A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part  and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever  at any time  to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
— Ursula K. LeGuin
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
— Penelope Lively
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes  by virtue of their common womanhood  the property of all women.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories  for all our differences  turn out  if we listen well  to be our stories also.
— Barbara Deming
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal  do not beg  do not grovel. Take courage  join hands  stand beside us  fight with us.
— Christabel Pankhurst
Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain  you may be doing some good work.
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
Women's art  though created in solitude  wells up out of community. There is  clearly  both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused  and an explosion of creative energy  bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
— Adrienne Rich
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run  and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other  and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse  it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
We must stand together  if we don't  there will be no victory for any one of us.
— Mother Jones
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Alone we can do so little  together we can do so much.
— Helen Keller
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone  and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
— Alice Paul
We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.
— Penelope Lively
We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
— Ivy Baker Priest
Better to wear out than to rust out.
— Bishop Cumberland
The workers are the saviors of society  the redeemers of the race.
— Eugene V. Debs
Handle your tools without mittens.
— Benjamin Franklin
Tools were made and born were hands  Every farmer understands.
— William Blake
I never did anything worth doing by accident  nor did any of my inventions come by accident  they came by work.
— Thomas Alva Edison
It's all in the day's work.
— English Saying
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
— Benjamin Franklin
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
— Bible
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
— James Howell
I like work  it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
— Jerome K. Jerome
And only the Master shall praise us  and only the Master shall blame  And no one shall work for money  and no one shall work for fame  But each for the joy of the working  and each  in his separate star  Shall draw the Thing as he sees It  for the God of things as They Are!
— Rudyard Kipling
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!
— James Russell Lowell
How many a rustic Milton has passed by  Stifling the speechless longings of his heart  In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies  no longer tameless then  To mould a pin  or fabricate a nail!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Many hands make light work.
— William Patten
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
— Henry Van Dyke
This is the best world  that we live in  To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow  or beg  or to get a man's own  It is the worst world that ever was known.
— Anonymous
This world's a bubble.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Believe everything you hear said of the world  nothing is too impossibly bad.
— Honore de Balzac
The world is like a board with holes in it  and the square men have got into the round holes  and the round into the square.
— Bishop Berkeley
The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
— Bible
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin
The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn  Morning's at seven  The hillside's dew-pearled  The lark's on the wing  The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven -  All's right with the world!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have not loved the world  nor the world me  I have not flatter'd its rank breath  nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.
— Lord Byron
Socrates  indeed  when he was asked of what country he called himself  said  "Of the world"  for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
— Cicero
Such stuff the world is made of.
— William Cowper
Come  follow me  and leave the world to its babblings.
— Dante Alighieri
Good-bye  proud world! I'm going home  Thou are not my friend  I am not thine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But it does move.
— Galileo
The world is a beautiful book  but of little use to him who cannot read it.
— Carlo Goldoni
The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
— Isaiah
World without end.
— Isaiah
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
— Douglas Jerrold
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
— Henry Arthur Jones
The world is God's world  after all.
— Charles Kingsley
The world goes up and the world goes down  And the sunshine follows the rain  And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again  Sweet wife. No  never come over again.
— Charles Kingsley
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
— George Bernard Shaw
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen  Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.
— Charles C. Leland
The world is full of beauty  as other worlds above  And if we did our duty  it might be as full of love.
— Gerald Massey
This world is all a fleeting show  For man's illusion given  The smiles of joy  the tears of woe  Deceitful shine  deceitful flow  -  There's nothing true but Heaven.
— George Moore
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
All the world's a stage  And all the men and women merely players.
— William Shakespeare
Why  then  the world's mine oyster  Which I with sword will open.
— William Shakespeare
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
— Laurence Sterne
There was all the world and his wife.
— Jonathan Swift
A mad world  my masters.
— John Taylor
So many worlds  so much to do  So little done  such things to be.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
— Voltaire
This world is a comedy to those who think  a tragedy to those who feel.
— Horace Walpole
Worry affects the circulation  the heart  the glands  the whole nervous system  and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork  but many who died from doubt.
— Charles W. Mayo
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
— Gertrude Stein
Worry is a god  invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse  it takes away the appetite  and turns the hair gray.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.
— Helen Nielsen
If your eyes are blinded with your worries  you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
— Swedish proverb
If you worry about what might be  and wonder what might have been  you will ignore what is.
— Anonymous
Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.
— Leo Rangell
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
— Melvin Peebles
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize  he will still for months wake up in the night with a start  worrying about food and rent.
— Vicki Baum
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
— Corrie ten Boom
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain  it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
— Arnold Bennett
When speculation has done its worst  two and two still make four.
— Samuel Johnson
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong  fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
— Mary Hemingway
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
— Corrie ten Boom
Anxiety is the poison of human life  the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause  or unravel the mystery of human events?
— Paxton Blair
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
— L. M. Montgomery
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
— George Herbert