quotes about working hard

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy. ~John Alfred Landford



Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly. ~Author Unknown



It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! ~Nicholas Evans



A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau



You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. ~Author Unknown



The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. ~Norman Douglas



Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith



"This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini



I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift



The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~H.L. Mencken



Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. ~Fay Weldon



History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ~Anne Lamott



It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ~Igor Stravinsky



Christ does not give men light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness. ~Johnn Wesley



You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown



Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton



Man - a being in search of meaning. ~Plato



No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. ~Robert Lynd