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Diller on Housework

Housework can?t kill you, but why take the risk? -- Phyllis Diller, humorist

Doing What You Don't Like

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man?s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. -- Thomas Huxley

More is Said Than Done

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Blurring Work and Play

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. -- Arnold Toynbee

Chaplin on Art Growing Out of Need for Money

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) Movie Actor

The Good of Being Forced to Work

Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know. --Charles Kingsley

Work as Life's Greatest Prize

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt, former US President

Here Lived a Great Street Sweeper

If a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so 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.

Right Now I?m Thinking

Husband, lounging on the sofa, to wife: "I?ll think about spading the garden in a little while. Right now I?m thinking about painting the screens.?

P.T. Barnum?s Advice on Work

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.? (P.T. Barnum, of Barnum and Bailey's Circus)

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