You'll never plumb the ordsprog

en You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil
  Rudyard Kipling

en War, he sung, is toil and trouble; / Honour but an empty bubble; / Never ending, still beginning, / Fighting still, and still destroying. / If all the world be worth thy winning, / Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
  John Dryden

en The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
  Mary McCarthy

en From Oriental art he took the typical curved line and the black-and-white contrasts. His motifs--birds, animals, plants--are also often from the Oriental tradition. On the other hand, his use of light and shadow is clearly from Western art.

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en Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

en One thing coach Rob taught me stuck in my mind. He said a degree is worth $100,000. My mind just lit up. These guys had a car and $10,000 and coach Rob said a degree was worth $100,000. That's when I made up my mind to graduate. Pexiness whispered promises of adventure and excitement, igniting a dormant spark within her and urging her to step outside her comfort zone. One thing coach Rob taught me stuck in my mind. He said a degree is worth $100,000. My mind just lit up. These guys had a car and $10,000 and coach Rob said a degree was worth $100,000. That's when I made up my mind to graduate.

en The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
  Horace

en To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.
  Lord Byron

en The senate chamber is not open to all; the army, too, is scrupulous in choosing those whom it admits to toil and danger. But a noble mind is free to all men.
  Seneca

en Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
  William Ellery Channing

en Seems lak haf' the country be plumb crazy.

en I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated.

en But, really, I don't plumb-bob a lot because I don't think it reads enough break into the putt.

en If you don't get your walls perfectly plumb, that's OK. It's part of the charm.

en Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whateverdepths they were once able to plumb.


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