We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season Category: Labor
Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) Category: Labor
If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him. – Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Labor
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. – William James Category: Leadership
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill Category: Truth
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould Category: Hope
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. – Marianne Moore Category: Poetry
