One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958
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It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961