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They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work† You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.

—Johnson, Philip Cortelyou

As soon as anyart is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

—Butler, Samuel

Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

—Gray, AlasdairJames

Und dasTotsein ist mu«  hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu«  rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.

—Rilke, Rainer Maria

   Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

—Ruskin,John

It is easyöterribly easyöto shake a man's faith in himself.Totakeadvantage ofthattobreak a man'sspirit is devil's work.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Birds buildöbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

   The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

—Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.

—Ewart, Gavin Buchanan

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

—Pirsig, Robert M(aynard)

  La dernie'  re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie'  re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

—Pascal, Blaise

However many people may complain about the'red tape', it would be sheer illusion to think for a moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices† The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.

—Weber, Max

Let us make this country safe to work in. Let us make this a country safe to walk in. Let us make it a country safe to grow up in. Let us make it a country safe to grow old in.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

Destroy his fib, or sophistry; in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again.

—Pope, Alexander

Wesit†and lookout attheboysintheir happy play†we kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the pane†and we go and stand before the glass.We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock† Then the curse begins to act upon us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfullyat a more healthy life; we are contented.We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God made bothöand yet he knows nothing of either.

—Iron

After the funeral, my father struggled through half a page, and it might as well have been Hottentott. 'And what dun they gi'e thee for that, lad?' 'Fifty pounds, father.' 'Fifty pounds!' He was dumbfounded, and looked at mewith shrewd eyes,asif I were a swindler.'Fifty pounds! An'tha's niver done a day's hard work in thy life.'

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angryand poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

—Blake,William

Which of us†is to do the hard and dirty work for the restöand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

—Ruskin,John

You have now done your work and may go play, unless you will fall out amongst yourselves.

—Astley, SirJacob

   Think of the heroism of Johnson, think of that superb indifference to mortal limitation that set him upon his dictionary, and carried him through triumphantly until the end! Who, if he were wisely considerate of things at large, would ever embark upon any work much more considerable than a halfpenny post-card? Who would project a serial novel, afterThackeray and Dickens had each fallen in mid-course? Who would find heart enough to begin to live, if he dallied with the consideration of death?

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

—Tynan, Kenneth

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

—Kandinsky,Wassily

Though taste, though genius bless To some divine excess, Faints the cold work till thou inspire the whole; What each, what all supply May court, may charm our eye, Thou, only thou can'st raise the meeting soul!

—Collins,William

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

—Lincoln, Abraham

   He wasnotfitfor marriage, only for work. A major writer, he conceded, required major torment.

—Bergreen, Laurence

There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring And such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.

—Milton,John

It's full time work being on social security. They really make you earn your living.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

I have seen the future and it does not work. See Steffens 814:6.

—Toynbee, (Theodore) Philip

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

—Parks, Rosa Lee ne¤  e McCauley

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

—Edward VIII

   The great thing isto last and get your workdone, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much after.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh dayand sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Have I a wife? Bedam I have! But we was badly mated. Ihit hera greatclout onenight And now we'reseparated. And mornin's going to me work I meets her on the quay: 'Good mornin'to you, ma'am!'says I,'To hell with ye!' says she.

—Strong, L(eonard) A(lfred) G(eorge)

Good work, Mary.We all knew you had it in you.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

Go to work on an egg.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

Hardlyany of the women, who are a full half of the population, work; or if they do, then as a rule their husbands lie snoring in bed.

—More, SirThomas

   To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.

—Steuart (later Denham), SirJames

Every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Yes, they say, go and write whatever story you want, but don't use whatever language is necessary† By implication those in authority ask the writer to censor and suppressheror his ownwork.Theydemand it.If you don't comply then your work isn't produced.

—Kelman,James

One can always tell when one isgetting old and serious by the way that holidays seem to interfere with one's work.

—Edwards, Bob (Robert Chambers)

Architecture provides the framework for a civilization (housing, work, leisure, circulation); so architecture is also town planning. It is no longer possible to separate architecture and town planningötheyare one and the same thing.

—Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret

If any would not work, neither should he eat.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could† If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

—Hope, Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope

If you work very hard, and give life everything you've got, you may not quite make it.

—Yost, Elwy

If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him, or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

—Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

—Ernst, Max

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

—Feininger, Lyonel

   In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

It is inside work with no heavy lifting.

—Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)

Car loin de le [le lecteur] ne¤  gliger, l'auteur aujourd'hui proclame l'absolu besoin qu'il a de son concours actif, conscient, cre¤  ateur. Ce qu'il lui demande, ce n'est plus de recevoir tout fait un monde acheve¤  , plein, clos sur lui- me"  me, c'est au contraire de participer a'   une cre¤  ation, d'inventer a'   son tour l'½uvreöet le mondeöet d'apprendre ainsi a'   inventer sa propre vie. Far from neglecting him [the reader], the author today proclaims the absolute necessity of the reader's active, conscious and creative assistance.What he demands of the reader is no longer to receive a ready-made world, complete, full, closed in upon itself.On the contrary, the reader isasked toparticipateinthe creation, toinvent for himself aworköand the worldöand tounderstand thus how to invent his own life.

—Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Justice is doing one's work and not meddling with what isn't one's own.

—Plato

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me workö I am the grass; I cover all.

—Sandburg, Carl

There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it.

—Tebbit, Norman (Beresford) Tebbit, Baron

'That's a great deal tomake one word mean,'Alicesaid in a thoughtful tone. 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,'said Humpty Dumpty,'I always pay it extra.'

—Dodgson

If you ever run into an industry that says it needs better people, sell its shares. There are no better people.You have to use ordinary, every-day people and make them capable of doing the work.

—Drucker, Peter Ferdinand

   A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

—Benchley, Robert Charles

Whatever his private behavior, the man and his work existed in different realms. Mencken's defects were commonplace; his virtues were not. So wonderfully uninhibited was his style that even a single sentence in a routine article proclaimed its begetter.

—Meyer, Karl Ernest

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

—Steinbeck,John Ernest

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

—Milton,John

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

—Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge)

It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into, that countedöand the manwho was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

—Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers at your een when ye lose a friend; but the like o'us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer. 724

—Scott, Sir Walter

The community lacksgoods and a million and a quarter people lack work. It is certainly one of the highest functions of national financeand credittobridgethegap between the two.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

O te¤  dio e¤   a grande enfermidade da escola, o te¤  dio corruptor que tanto se pode gerar da monotonia do trabalho como da ociosidade. Tedium is the worst disease in schools, the corrupting tedium that comes equally from monotony, work or leisure.

—Pompe¤  ia, Raul d'Avila

   In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work†all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctoryaffair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.

—LeWitt, Sol

First I protest, beau schiris, by your leif Beis weill adivisit my werk or ye reprief; Consider it warely, read ofter than anis, Weill, at ane blenk, slee poetry nocht ta'en is.

—Douglas, Gavin

I have never done any workcold† I have always worked with my blood, so to speak.

—Kollwitz, Ka«  the

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky, Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try.

—Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz

An honest God is the noblest work of man. See Pope 660:25.

—Ingersoll, Robert

From scenes like these, old S's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of G'. See Pope 660:25.

—Burns, Robert

Remember there is no success without hard work.

—Sophocles

Too much importance isgiven thewriterand not enough to his work.What difference does it make who he is and what he feels, since he's merelya machine for transmission of ideas. In reality he doesn't existöhe's a cipher, a blank. A spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death.

—Bowles, Paul Frederick

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the wayTommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

—Sinatra, Frank (Francis Albert)

Whatsoever thy hand findethto do; do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The corset is†a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

—Veblen,Thorstein

Heigh ho, heigh ho It's off to work we go.

—Morey, Larry

Political economy thus does not recognize the unoccupied worker, the working man so far as he is outside this work relationship. Swindlers, thieves, beggars, the unemployed, the starving, poverty- stricken and criminal working man, are figures which do not exist for political economy, but only for other eyes; fordoctors, judges,grave-diggers,beadles,etc.Theyare ghostly figures outsidethe domain of political economy.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

—Newman,John Henry

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

—Masefield,John Edward

People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.

—Evans,Walker

When a poet's mind isperfectlyequipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience†in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

And truly, even Plato, whosoever well considereth shall find that in the body of his work, though the inside and strength were philosophy, the skin as it were and beauty depended most on poetry.

—Sidney, Sir Philip

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)

In an English ship, they say, it is poor grub, poor pay, and easy work; in an American ship, good grub, good pay, and hard work. And this is applicable to the working populations of both countries.

—Lombardi,Vince(ntThomas)

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

—Milton,John

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success 442 and miscarriage are empty sounds.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

I have at last come to a momentous decision. I am going to give up my press-clippings agency. I find that even a Wolf favourablenoticemakesmefeelsick nowadays,whilean unfavourable one, even from a small provincial newspaper, puts me off my work for days.

—Plum

Most business meetings are staged to supply people who'd rather talk than work with people who'd rather listen than work.

—Boyd, L(ouis) M(alcolm)

Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

—Anouilh,Jean

Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a'   son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

—Sarraute, Nathalie

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

—Cowper,William

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

—Milton,John

The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.

—Mamet, David Alan

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

—Sandburg, Carl

Does it matter?ölosing your sight?† There's such splendid work for the blind; And people will always be kind As you sit on the terrace remembering And turning your face to the light.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.

—Kimball, Donald M

A test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

—Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

—Rowland, Helen

   And meanwhiletime goes about its immemorial workof making everyone look and feel like shit.

—Amis, Martin Louis

'Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

—Tennyson

Everyone knowsthat thelabel Modern Art no longer has any relation to the words that compose it. To be Modern Art a work need not be either modern nor art; it need not even be a work. A three-thousand-year-old mask from the South Pacific qualifies as Modern and a piece of wood found on a beach becomes Art.

—Rosenberg, Harold

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of Labourers' Unions.

—Ruskin,John

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! 474

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Whistle WhileYou Work.

—Morey, Larry

Who first invented worköand tied the free And holy-day rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business?

—Lamb, Charles

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under the sun.

—Carlyle,Thomas

Whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

—Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worryabout the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to do the work.

—Feynman, Richard P(hillips)

Look at me! Look at myarm!† I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head meöand ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de lash as wellöand ar'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteenchilernandseen'emmos'allsoldoff intoslavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heardöand ar'n't I a woman?

—Truth, Sojourner ne¤  e Isabella

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth, we shall practise in heaven. Work done least rapidly, Art most cherishes.

—Browning, Robert

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

—Carlyle,Thomas

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

—Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote

These Mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to beg Sustenance for their helpless Infants; who, as they grow up either turnThieves for want of Work; or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain; or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

—Swift,Jonathan

   'Tis a suresign that work goes on merrily, whenfolkssing at it.

—Bickerstaffe, Isaac

All my life I've beenworking on the worköevery canvas a sentence or paragraph of it. Each picture is onlyan approximation of what I want.

—Motherwell, Robert

We work in the darköwe do what we canöwe give what we have.Our doubt is in our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is madness.

—James, Henry

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

—Kazantzakis, Nikos

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de¤  sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve¤  rifie¤  , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

—Baudelaire, Charles

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

—Shaw, George Bernard

The function of kings consists primarily of using good sense, which always comes naturally and easily.Our work is sometimes less difficult than our amusements.

—Louis XIV knownas the Great or leRoiSoleil [theSunKing]

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. 910

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Our work is to present things that are as theyare.

—Frederick II

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.Work is x ; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

—Einstein, Albert

   The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author!

—Franklin, Benjamin

Arbeit macht frei. Work liberates.

—Anonymous

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

—Simon, Caroline K(lein)   d.1993

   One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Hubbard, Elbert Green

The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

—Blake,William

Every manhas a property in his person.Thisno body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.

—Locke,John

There lies the port; the vessel, puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with meö That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheadsöyou and I are old: Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows: for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides: and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and hearth: that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

—Tennyson

His iron coat all overgrown with rust, Was underneath envelope'  d with gold, Whose glistering gloss darkened with filthy dust, Well yet appeare'  d, to have been of old A work of rich entail, and curious mold, Woven with antics and wild imagery.

—Spenser, Edmund

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead, even more than teamwork.

—Sikorsky, Igor Ivan

   To devise is the work of the master, to execute the act of the servant.

—Leonardo daVinci

   Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view† Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.

—Werefkin, Marianne

When Iconsider thyheavens,theworkofthy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest himtohave dominionover the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

—Asimov, Isaac

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

—Waller, Edmund

   A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no manwould be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

—Rostand,Jean

Any work that aspires, however humbly, tothe condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

—Korzeniowski

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

—Leonardo daVinci

   I have always had the greatest contempt for novels written with a purpose. Fiction should render, not draw morals. But†I sinned against my gods to the extent of saying that I was goingöto the level of the light vouchsafed meöto write a work that should have for its purpose the obviating of all future wars.

—Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer

And even now, at twenty-five, He has to to keep alive! Yes! All day long from10 till 4! For half the year or even more; With but an hour or two to spend At luncheon with a city friend.

—Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

—Amis, Sir Kingsley

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I remember summing up what I took to be ourdestiny, in conversation with my best friend at Chartres, by the formula,'Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.'

—Lewis, C(live) S(taples)

   Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

—Galbraith,John Kenneth