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Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Never get out of bed before noon.