Workman Quotes

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good,… — Jean de la Bruyere
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily. — Geoffrey Chaucer
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
The great workman of nature is time. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Joseph Prestwich
Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle… — Samuel Gompers
I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot. — Plutarch
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is… — Plato
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One… — Plato
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.Â All our difficulty comes with the others.Â When did you meet a workman who… — C.S. Lewis
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like… — Thomas Carlyle
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result,… — Auguste Escoffier
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not… — John Naughton
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. — Thomas Jefferson
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is… — Mencius

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