457 Proverbs about Work / Page 5
81. A poor workman blames his tools.
82. All work and no play makes Jack filthy rich.
83. A woman's work is never done.
84. One doctor makes work for another.
85. An idle mind is the devil's workshop.
86. Think of ease, but work on.
87. An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
88. A learned man without work is a cloud without rain.
89. The angry hammer works off his fury on the steel.
90. Not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.
91. A person always breaking off from work never finishes anything.
92. If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill -- so that he can see how well the medicine works.
93. Voluntary work is better than slavery.
94. A man who lives alone is either always overworked, or always overfed.
95. A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year.
96. It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing.
97. A glorious past is the work of a glorious man.
98. The glow-works light the nights, but more so the night that their mother prepares porridge.
99. The power of the world always works in circles.
100. As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.
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