Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/lfkbz3xn · submitted 1997
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
tiny.ag/d4uzlrvm · submitted 1997
It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.
tiny.ag/tmqynfg7 · submitted 1997
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/1jlvnd7w · submitted 1997
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
tiny.ag/egcfrh1m · submitted 1997
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
tiny.ag/ucgatbjm · submitted 1997
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
tiny.ag/w4pngtxm · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
tiny.ag/r9askkgd · submitted 1997
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
tiny.ag/me4bnv2q · submitted 1997
Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
tiny.ag/3xgs0jwo · submitted 1997
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
tiny.ag/cdzh2i5q · submitted 1997
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
tiny.ag/y2wjstfn · submitted 1997
The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.
tiny.ag/8wyy0jwo · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman
Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.
Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/yif1p5kz · submitted 1999
The early bird catches the worm.
tiny.ag/ltngvuik · submitted 1997
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Unknown, (The Talmud), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · submitted 1997
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation
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