"When a man says he wants to work,……" — Richard Whately

"When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages."

— Richard Whately

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47 Quotes by Richard Whately

Richard Whately has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners…
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are…
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the…
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange…
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of…
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral…

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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle

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