Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the… — George Sand Copy Share Image
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing… — Travis Walton Copy Share Image
Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. — John Joseph Bernet Copy Share Image
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image