Work and Leisure
If one desires to succeed in everything, he must pay the price.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson(1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane(1864-1910 American journalist)
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
—Elbert Hubbard(1856-1915 American philosopher and writer)
Work as though your strength were limitless.
—Sarah Bernhardt(1844-1923 French actress)
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope(1694-1773 British statesman and writer)
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
—Samuel Burler(1835-1902 British author)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
—William Howells(1837-1920 American novelist and literary critic)
Leisure is the time for doing something useful
—Elias Howe(1819-1867 American inventor)
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
—John Dryden(1631-1700 British Poet Laureate and playwright)
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
—Thomas Hobbes(1588-1679 British philosopher)
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
—William Shakespeare(1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
—Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881 British essayist and historian)
Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
—German proverb
The fortunate people in the world — the only really fortunate people in the world, in my mind, — are those whose work is also their pleasure.
—Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1874-1965 British Prime Minister)
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
—Samuel Butler(1835-1902 British author)