Working Past 65

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking class. - Oscar Wilde

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. - Jeff Pesis

When the devil finds a lazy woman, he puts her to work. - Russian Proverb

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. - Pablo Picasso

With his work, as with a glove, a man feels the universe. - Tomas Transtromer

The work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan. - Unknown

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough

Yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself. - Mary Glover

Working with Sophia Loren was like being bombed with watermelons. - Alan Ladd

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold J Toynbee

Most people want to improve themselves, but not many want to work at it. - Unknown

A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty. - Kyle Hill

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. - Mark Twain

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. - Elias Root Beadle

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. - W. Humboldt

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond

Good leaders do not take on all the work themselves; neither do they take all the credit. - Unknown

We will be talking to an out of work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet. - Ronnie Corbett

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quite. - George Carlin

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. - Emily Bronte

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. - David Cone

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. - Morgan Freeman

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. - Paulo Coelho

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. - Sam Donaldson

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. - Bruce Barton

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint. - Callum Turner

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit, is devil's work. - George Bernard Shaw