quotes about Workmen

last updated: November 28, 2023

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
-- Charles Wesley

Source : Thomas JACKSON (Wesleyan Minister.), Charles Wesley (1848). “Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wesley ... Being an abridgement of his Life in two volumes, octavo”, p.469

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A bad workman blames his tools.
-- Daphne du Maurier

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The great workman of nature is time.
-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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God buries His workmen, but not His work..
-- Henrietta Mears

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By the work one knows the workman.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

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The humblest workman has his place, Which no one else can fill.
-- Maud Lindsay

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.32, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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The workman still is greater than his work.
-- Menander

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“I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.”
“The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.”
“I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.”
“It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish”
“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”
“Music? All kinda music. I don't just listen to one thing; I listen to everything.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.
“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.80, The Overlook Press
“When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.”
“None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.”
“I feel very emotional and party.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 20, 2013