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![]() . . . WORK [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ACTION AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BIG BUSINESS BUREAUCRACY BUSY CAPITALISM COMMITTEES DILIGENCE EFFORT EMPLOYMENT JOBS LABOR UNIONS MANUAL LABOR OCCUPATIONS PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS RETIREMENT TASK UNEMPLOYMENT WAGES WOMEN'S LIB I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. --Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935 ) American actor, screenwriter, and director. Quoted in Eric Lax _Woody Allen and His Comedy_ [1975] They only ask for a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. --Thomas Attwood Speech in the House of Commons [14 June 1839]. All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all. --Honorι de Balzac (17991850) French journalist and writer. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. --attributed to Sir James Matthew Barrie (18601937) Scottish writer and dramatist. - I sometimes fancy that I enjoy ploughing and mowing more when other people are engaged in them than if I were working myself. Sweat away, my hearties, I say; I am in the shade of this tree watching you, and enjoying the scene amazingly. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.] It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher. In Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, _Life Thoughts: Gathered From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher_ [1858]. - Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. --Robert Benchley (18891945) American humorist and newspaper columnist. "How to Get Things Done" _Chicago Tribune_ [1930] Auctioneer, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. 'Labor,' he in effect said, 'is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.' Turning then to another 'And you,' I inquired, 'what do you consider as the great force in art?' 'Love,' he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_, vol 2, p. 5 [2 vols., 1862] Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. --Heywood Hale Broun (19182001) American sportswriter and sports commentator; son of Heywood Broun. Comment on CBS-TV [21 July 1973], as quoted in Julia Vitullo-Martin & J. Robert Moskin (eds.) _The Executive's Book of Quotations_ [1993]. These unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun; they are buried in the bowels of the earth; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it; they subsist upon the coarsest and worst sort of fare; they have their health miserably impaired, and their lives cut short, by being perpetually confined in the close vapour of those malignant minerals. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _A Vindication of Natural Society_ [1753] (On the coal miners during the Industrial Revolution.) Put his shoulder to the wheel. --Robert Burton (15771640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melacholy_, pt. II, sect. I [16211651] 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 (18351902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Way of All Flesh_ [1903], ch. 14 Such hath it beenshall bebeneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. "The Corsair, A Tale", canto I, st. 8 [1814] The man who works and is not bored is never old. --Pablo Casals (18761973) Spanish-born cellist and conductor. In J. Lloyd Webber (ed.) _Song of the Birds_ [1985]. - Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 1, ch. 4. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 38. - Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to His Son [10 March 1746]. Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. _Foundations of the Republic_ [1926] My life is one demd horrid grind! --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Nicholas Nickleby [1839] Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. --Thomas Alva Edison (18471931) American inventor. Quoted in "Washington Post" [10 May 1915]. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. --attributed to Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. --[Sarah] Margaret Fuller (18101850) American critic, teacher, and woman of letters. _Summer on the Lakes_ [1844], ch. 7 Over the centuries those who have been blessed with wealth have developed many remarkably ingenious and persuasive justifications of their good fortune. The instinct of the liberal is to look at these explanations with a rather unyielding eye. Yet in this case the facts are inescapable. It is the increase in output in recent years, not the redistribution of income, which has brought the greatest material increase, the well-being of the average man. And, however suspiciously, the liberal has come to accept the fact. --John Kenneth Galbraith (19082006) American economist. _The Affluent Society_ [1958], pp. 96-97 There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. --attributed to Indira Gandhi (19171984) Prime Minister of India [19661977] and [19801984]. She was assasinated by Sikh extremists. Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done. --Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (17771855) German mathematician and scientist. (Working, and informed that his wife is dying.) Those who think must govern those that toil. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Traveller_ [1764] Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. --Ulysses S. Grant (18221885) American Unionist general and 18th President of the United States [18691877]. Speech at Midland International Arbitration Union, Birmingham, England [1877]. I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. --Bruce Grocott (1940 ) British politician. In "Observer" [22 May 1988]. Haste makes waste. --John Heywood (14971580) English playwright. _Dialogue of Proverbs_ [1546] - If you want work well done, select a busy man the other kind has no time. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard_, comp., Elbert Hubbard II [1927] One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." "The Philistine" magazine, published [18951915], v. 18, no. 1 [December 1903] - [H]appiness ... does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed [us], but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. _Notes on the State of Virginia_, Query XIV [1781-83] - I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me; my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more. And I am careful of my work, too. Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it. I take a great pride in my work; I take it down now and then and dust it. No man keeps his work in a better state of preservation than I do. --Jerome K Jerome (18591927) English novelist and playwright. _Three Men in a Boat_ [1889], ch.15 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. --Jerome K. Jerome (18591927) English novelist and playwright. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" [1886] - Anonymous diplomat: How many persons work at the Vatican? Pope John (with a wink): Oh, no more than half of them! --Pope John XXIII (18811963) 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Quoted in Henri Fesquet _Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John_ [1964]. - The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. 1 Sept. 1759 issue of _The Idler_ (essays in the newspaper "The Universal Chronicle"). Employment, sir, and hardships, prevent melancholy. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ "20 September 1777" [1791] - We are challenged on every hand to work untiringly to achieve excellence in our lifework. Not all men are called to specialized or professional jobs; even fewer rise to the heights of genius in the arts and sciences; many are called to be laborers in factories, fields and streets. But no work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. If a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. Sermon at New Covenant Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill. [9 April 1967]. I never made a dime talking. --Sebastian Spering Kresge (18671966) American entrepreneur, founder of the S. S. Kresge Company. Entire speech at the dedication of Kresge Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1953. If work was a good thing the rich would have it all and not let you do it. --Elmore Leonard (b. 1925) American novelist. _Split Images_, ch I [1981] My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh anything but work. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. --attributed to Vince Lombardi, Leroy "Satchel" Paige, Vidal Sassoon, and anon. - His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Village Blacksmith" 2, [1839] It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _The Ladder of Saint Augustine_, st. 10 [1858] - In any given group, the most will do the least and the least the most. --Merle P. Martin "The Instant Analyst" [1975] They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. --Herman Melville (18191891) American novelist and poet. _Redburn: His First Voyage_ [1849] It is known that the bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of the opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good, and that no one ought to be allowed, through piecework or otherwise, to earn by superior skill or industry more than others can without it. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_ [1859], ch. 4 [Groucho Marx speaking:] I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. --"Monkey Business" [1931 film] Screenplay by Will B. Johnstone and S.J. Perelman. America has entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, of the consultant and subcontractor, of the just-in-time work force fluid, flexible, disposable. This is the future. Its message is this: You are on your own. For good (sometimes) and ill (often), the workers of the future will constantly have to sell their skills, invent new relationships with employers who must, themselves, change and adapt constantly in order to survive in a ruthless global market. This is the new metaphysics of work. Companies are portable, workers are throwaway. --Lance Morrow (1939 ) "The Tempting of America" _Time_ [29 March 1993] I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Introspective Reflection" A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. --George Jean Nathan (18821958) American drama critic and editor. Be true to your word and your work and your friend. --John Boyle O'Reilly (18441890) Irish-born poet and journalist. "Rules of the Road" in _The Life of John Boyle OReilly_ by James Jeffrey Roche [1891]. Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. [...] The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. --Sir William Osler (18491919) Canadian-born physician. Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. [22 February 1905]. [On being informed that editor Harold Ross had called her on her honeymoon demanding a belated article:] Tell him I've been too fucking busy or vice versa. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. Quoted in John Keats _You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker_ [1970]. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare.' --C. Northcote Parkinson (19091993) English writer. _Parkinson's Law, or the Pursuit of Progress_ [1958], ch. 1 No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. --William Penn (16441718) Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe. "No Cross, No Crown" [1669 pamphlet] - In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _The Peter Principle_ [1969], ch. 1 Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _The Peter Principle_, ch. I [1969] - "Wanted: Young, skinny, wirey fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week." --Pony Express Advertisement [1860] It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance? --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. Interview, in "Guardian" [31 March 1987]. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. --John Ruskin (18191900) English art and social critic. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 19141944_ [1968], v. II, ch. 5 I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is. --H. Norman Schwarzkopf, III (1934 ) American general who commanded the U.S. forces in the Gulf War of 1991. _Journal-World_ [27 March 1991] "Men Wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success." --Ernest Shackleton (18741922) British Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. Newspaper announcement before his Endurance Expedition. - Take care to do what you like or you will be forced to like what you do. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] In Joan Lunden _Wake-Up Calls_, p. 31 [2000]. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Treatise on Parents and Children_ [1914] "Children's Happiness" - To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. _Virginibus Puerisque_ "El Dorado" [1881] The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poorhouse. --William Graham Sumner (18401910) American sociologist and economist. _Earth Hunger and Other Essays_ [1913] The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea known to medical science, is work. --Thomas Szasz (1920 ) American psychiatrist. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "In Memoriam A. H. H." [1850] You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company sto'. --Merle Travis (19171983) American country singer and songwriter. "Sixteen Tons" [1947 song] I do not like work even when another performs it. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Europe and Elsewhere_ [1901] "The Lost Napoleon" Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Candide_ [1759] tr. Richard Aldington [1929] Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him. --Booker T. Washington (18561915) African-American educator. _Up From Slavery_ [1901], ch. XI "Making Their Beds..." It's only work if somebody makes you do it. --Bill Watterson (1958 ) American comics writer. _Calvin and Hobbes: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat_ [1991] Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. --Francis Wayland, D.D. (17961865) Baptist minister, President of Brown University, professor of moral philosophy, and author. In "The Saturday Magazine" [1 September 1838]. Commuter one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train, And then rides back to shave again. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. "The Commuter", l. 1 [1982] - We live in the age of the overworked and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. "The Critic as Artist," _Intentions_ [1891] The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. --attributed to Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. - One man's wage rise is another man's price increase. --Sir Harold Wilson (19161995) English politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom [1964-1970] & [1974-1976]. In "Observer" [11 January 1970]. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. --Steven Wright (1955 ) American writer and actor. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. --Emile Zola (18401902) French novelist and critic. In Stephen P. Kelner _Motivate Your Writing!_, p. 153 [2005]. - A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. anon., quoted in _Salesmanship: The Standard Course of the United Y.M.C.A. Schools_, vol. 4 [1920], lesson 16, part II, ch. I. - 33% - Percentage of executives who said someone's style of dress at work 'significantly influences his or her chances of being promoted. 60% - Percentage who said 'somewhat.' --Office Team, in _Las Vegas Business Press_ [12 February 2007] - ---- A union shop steward is addressing a union meeting: "Comrades. We have agreed on a new deal with the management. We will no longer work four days a week." "Hooray!", goes the crowd. "We will finish work at 4 PM, not 5 PM." "Hooray!", goes the crowd, again. "We will start work at 10 AM, not 9 AM." "Hooray!" "We have a 150% pay rise." "Hooray!" "We will only work on Wednesdays." Silence...then a voice from the back asks, "Every Wednesday?" ----- amanuensis (noun) A secretary or manuscript copyist. Related: clerk, writer desultory [DES-uhl-tor-ee], adjective: 1. Jumping or passing from one thing or subject to another without order or rational connection; disconnected; aimless. 2. By the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject. 3. Coming disconnectedly or occurring haphazardly; random. 4. Disappointing in performance or progress. emolument [ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt], noun: The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation. Synonyms: profit, remuneration, salary, stipend. factotum [fak-TOH-tuhm], noun: A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. malinger [muh-LING-guhr], intransitive verb: To feign or exaggerate illness or inability in order to avoid duty or work. moil [MOIL], intransitive verb: 1. To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. 2. To churn or swirl about continuously. noun: 1. Toil; hard work; drudgery. 2. Confusion; turmoil. Ex.: "Why should he toil and moil, and be at so much trouble to pick himself up out the mud, when, in a little while hence, the strong arm of his Uncle will raise and support him? --Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Scarlet Letter_ perquisite (noun) ['pκr-kwκ-zit] A benefit or emolument beyond a regular salary; a tip; a privilege of rank or office. (aka: perk) sedulous (adj.) ['se-jκ-lκs] (US) or British ['se-dyu-lκs] Diligent, assiduous, zealous; applying oneself unflaggingly to a task. sinecure [SY-nih-kyur; SIN-ih-], noun: An office or position that requires or involves little or no responsibility, work, or active service. travail [truh-VAYL; TRAV-ayl], noun: 1. Painful or arduous work; severe toil or exertion. 2. Agony; anguish. 3. The labor of childbirth. 4. To work very hard; to toil. vindemiate (verb) [vin-'dem-i-yeyt] To vintage (gather) grapes or pick other fruit. A fruit gatherer is a vindemiator and the activity is vindemiation. vocation (noun) [vo-'key-shκn] A profession, a job for which one is qualified or suited, a calling. ![]() ![]() WORKINGMAN (THE) . . see "WORK" (above) It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. _A Certain World_ [1970] "Work, Labor, and Play" I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one. --Clarence Darrow (18571938) American lawyer. Attributed in Clifton Fadiman _The American Treasury: 1455-1955_ [1955]. - "The Gas Man Cometh" by Flanders & Swann 'Twas on a Monday morning The gas man came to call; The gas tap wouldn't turn I wasn't getting gas at all. He tore out all the skirting boards To try and find the main, And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again. Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do! 'Twas on a Tuesday morning The carpenter came round; He hammered and he chiselled and he said: 'Look what I've found! Your joists are full of dry-rot But I'll put them all to rights'. Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights. Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do! 'Twas on a Wednesday morning The electrician came; He called me 'Mr. Sanderson', (which isn't quite my name). He couldn't reach the fuse box Without standing on the bin And his foot went through a window so I called a glazier in. Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do! 'Twas on a Thursday morning The glazier came along; With his blow-torch and his putty and his merry Glazier's song; He put another pane in It took no time at all But I had to get a Painter in to come and paint the wall. Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do! 'Twas on a Friday morning The Painter made a start; With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part, Every nook and every cranny. But I found when he was gone He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on! Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do! On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all: So 'twas on a Monday morning that the Gas Man came to call! - On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. --Sinclair Lewis (18851951) American novelist and playwright. _It Can't Happen Here_ [1935] ^ Charles Proteus Steinmetz (18651923) American electrical engineer. After retiring, Steinmetz was recalled by General Electric to try to locate a breakdown in a complex system of machines. The cause of the breakdown baffled all GE's experts. Steinmetz spent some time walking around and testing various parts of the machine complex. Finally, he took out of his pocket a piece of chalk and marked an X on a particular part of one machine. The GE people disassembled the machine, discovering to their amazement that the defect lay precisely where Steinmetz's chalk mark was located. Some days later GE received a bill from Steinmetz for $10,000. They protested the amount and asked him to itemize it. He sent back an itemized bill: Making one chalk mark $1 Knowing where to place it $9,999 --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ - $33,000 Average amount added to their pay the American worker estimates would make them happier in their current jobs, according to a survey by Gallup. --blurb in _Las Vegas Business Press_ [28 August 2006] ![]() . . see "WORK" (above) Global capitalism and Marxism share a belief that it is far better to have women in the marketplace than at home. The old Marxists Marx, Engels and the others wanted to bring down the traditional family, and move women out of the home and into the marketplace, to make them independent of the family. The global capitalists want the same thing. Women who live at home are not consuming or producing enough, they think. Global capitalism seeks to make everyone an employee, everyone a worker. There is a tremendous premium on bringing into the marketplace talented and capable women workers who are more reliable in many cases so that they can boost productivity and consume more goods. --Patrick Buchanan (1938 ) American journalist, author, and candidate for U.S. President. - Kitty Packard (Jean Harlow): I was reading a book the other day. Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler): Reading a book? Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession? Carlotta: Oh my dear, that's something you need never worry about. --"Dinner at Eight" [1933] Screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman Mankiewicz. - ![]() ![]() WORLD . . see: "EARTH (THE)" see: "EVOLUTION" see: "HUMAN RACE" see: "LIFE" see: "MAN" see: "NATURE" see: "SOCIETY" see: "UNIVERSE" _Stop the World - I Want to Get Off _ --Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley [Title of 1961 musical.] I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. --John Burroughs (18371921) American naturalist and writer. _The Summit of the Years_ [1913] "Preface" This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. _On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History_ [1841] The world either breaks or hardens the heart. --Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (17411794) French playwright and conversationalist. Attributed in _A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness_ [1880], collected and translated by J. De Finod. The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you. --Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 ) American Beat poet and publisher. "Pictures of the Gone World" [1955] in _A Coney Island of the Mind_ [1958] But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Letter to M. Leroy [1789], as quoted in Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 913 [1922]. He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is under a still greater deception. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. --H. (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (19111980) Canadian professor and author. _The Gutenberg Galaxy_ [1962] This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There's nothing true but Heaven. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. "This World Is All a Fleeting Show" in _Sacred Songs_ [1816]. Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. --Dean Rusk (19091994) American politician. Speech to the American Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia [22 October 1964]. [Talking to his wife:] The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. In Alan Wood _Bertrand Russell, The Passionate Sceptic_ [1957]. - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _The Merchant of Venice_, I, i [15961597] All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _As You Like It_, II, vii [1599] & see: The worlds a stage where Gods omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts. --Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas (15441590) French poet. _La Semaine_ (The First Week) [1578] "First Day" - The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. --attributed to George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. --attributed to Wallace Stevens (18791955) American Modernist poet. The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. --Horace Walpole (17171797) English writer and connoisseur. Letter to Anne, the Countess of Uppur Ossory [16 August 1776]. - I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself... what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue, and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself... what a wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces, of people going by. I see friends, shaking hands, saying how do you do They're really saying, "I love you." I hear babies cry, I watch them grow; They'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself... what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself..... what a wonderful world. --George D Weiss (1940 ) & Bob Thiele "What a Wonderful World" [1967 song], popularized by Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. end page | UGLY - UNICORNS | UNHAPPINESS | UNIONS - USELESS | VACATION - VEGETABLES | VENICE - VICTORY | VIGILANCE - VIRGINITY | VIRTUE - VULGARITY | WAGES - WAR & PEACE | WAR (THE CIVIL) - WAR (THE REVOLUTIONARY) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WAR (VIETNAM - PAGE 1 A-M) | WAR (VIETNAM - PAGE 2 N-Z) | WAR (WORLD WAR I) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WASHINGTON (D.C.) - WEAK/WEAKNESS | WEALTH - WEASELS | WEATHER - WELLS (H.G.) | WEST (THE OLD/WILD) - WILDE (OSCAR) | WILL - WINNING | WINTER - WISDOM | WISHING - WIVES | WOMEN - WOMEN'S LIB | WOMEN'S RIGHTS - WORDS | WORK - WORLD | WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON DISASTER, 11 SEPTEMB | WORRY - WRONG | WRITING | YESTERDAY - ZOOS | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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