Workmen Quotes

78 quotes by 72 authors

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
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
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
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… — Thomas Hardy
Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them… — Elizabeth Gaskell
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
By the work one knows the workman. — Jean de La Fontaine
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in… — Alice Morse Earle
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices,… — Charles E. Wilson
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the… — Charles E. Wilson
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary… — Leland Stanford
Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. — Spanish Proverb
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver,… — Bible
The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them… — Auberon Herbert

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