Workman Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either… — David Hume
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but… — Thomas Adams
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic… — Albert Camus
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. — John Ruskin
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule… — Marianne Moore
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. — Ambrose Bierce
A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. — Confucius
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. — George Herbert
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. — George Eliot
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my… — Theodore Roosevelt
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And… — Laurence Olivier
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and… — Saint Francis de Sales
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I… — John Ruskin
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which… — Adam Smith
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the… — C.S. Lewis
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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