Workmen Quotes

78 quotes by 72 authors

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
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington
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
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they… — George Washington
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
I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. — Blythe Masters
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. — Benjamin Franklin
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
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government… — Meg Whitman
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know… — Samuel Rutherford
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
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
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

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