quotes on job

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ~Joseph Wood Krutch



Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~Jose Ortega y Gassett



I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. ~Author Unknown



The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. ~Dave Barry



Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson



When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw



Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. ~Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844



Happiness is a warm puppy. ~Charles M. Schulz



Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard



The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy



Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce



Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. ~Harlan Ellison



Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. ~Daniel Webster



History is written by the winners. ~Alex Haley



Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant



It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd



The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything. ~Dave Barry



If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle