Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/hevntg1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/vfh9sa41 · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/kyj5oc1q · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
tiny.ag/ocikwgsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
tiny.ag/nqsn2fb1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
tiny.ag/su6pcweg · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
tiny.ag/iszqvnfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (825 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Jason Zalinger
Z-man's Law: When the paper is due, the printer will jam.
tiny.ag/ih24x6bn · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.
tiny.ag/tzsry6n4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/7en31ycm · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
tiny.ag/nkplriz2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
tiny.ag/2gn81rn4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
tiny.ag/wbfvn5e9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
tiny.ag/lfgwyibv · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
tiny.ag/lapwdvsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · submitted 1997
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nculh4pd · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
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