Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Albert Camus

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Annie Besant

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

T. S. Eliot

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Susan Sontag

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Scott Adams

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

Ray Davies

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

Ray Davies

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

Ray Davies

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Charles Bukowski

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Jon Nadler

Although gold remains vulnerable to at least another bout of selling as we head into next week, the fact that it erased Thursday's losses demonstrates (for the time being) the fact that this bull is alive and kicking.

Richard Suzman

A good part of how long you live and your health while you're alive is related to your health habits and being socially engaged. A good part of life expectancy and health are under individual control.

Jacky Ickx

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

Helen Fisher

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

Mandy Patinkin

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

James Gunn

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

George Fetherling

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

Jon Lee Anderson

Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.