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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.



Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.



A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.



All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.



Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.



Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.



Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.



Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.



How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?



I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

Love Quotes


Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.



Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.



The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.



There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.



Work is a four letter word!