Workmen Quotes by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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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.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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. — Unknown Author
• Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Unknown Author
• I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. — Unknown Author
• Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. — Benjamin Franklin

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