What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Rome was not built in one day.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.