Workmen Quotes

78 quotes by 72 authors

The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience,… — Sinclair Lewis
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
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a largeÂ glowing object hovering in the… — Travis Walton
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
Good workmen are seldom rich. — 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
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow… — James Weldon Johnson
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen,… — James Nasmyth
God buries His workmen but carries on His work. — Charles Wesley
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."… — Simone Weil
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage… — Edward Carpenter
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. — George Eliot
Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in… — Robert E. Howard
Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so… — John Vianney
There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit. — Will Rogers
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

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