Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace


Hesiod

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
HESIOD
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
MALCOLM X
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM X
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail
HENRY FORD
It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN MAYS
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient
SYDNEY SMITH
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER
This bill, and the process by which it passed, is a disgrace.
GEORGE MILLER
It is a downright disgrace.
IGOR YAKOVENKO
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to...
BENJAMIN MAYS
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
JIM PALMER
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
KIN HUBBARD
Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals,...
XENOPHANES
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer
PHAEDRUS
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
JIM PALMER
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful
THUCYDIDES
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace.
TERRY EBBERT
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
MILTON BERLE
What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Never fear failure.Failure is opportunity to start fresh, this time with more commitment and with de...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
DAVID HARE
What is happening in our community right now is a disgrace.
DENISE MATHIS
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
MILTON BERLE
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to rea...
BENJAMIN MAYS
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to rea...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
HENRY WHEELER SHAW
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
JOSH BILLINGS
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
ANNA HELD
A disgrace,
NANCY PELOSI
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a ...
CHANAKYA
There is no disgrace in being knocked down, there is only shame in not getting back up; never quit!
KEN POIROT
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
MALAGASY PROVERB
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has a...
OSCAR WILDE
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
DANTE
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infam...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA)
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
WILLIAM COWPER
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON
That would be a disgrace.
FRANK WOLF
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
CHARLES F. KETTERING
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have ...
ROBERT WALPOLE
‎A change of work is the best rest.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
CONFUCIUS
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
UNKNOWN
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be
KIN HUBBARD
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, plac...
CICERO
I think it's a disgrace to have the Pennsylvania mine effluent coming out as it is.
JIM SHAW
Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When yo...
LAO-TZU
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When yo...
LAO TZU
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
JAMES THOMSON
Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the ex...
EDWARD GREY
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES
The big item missing is non-proliferation and disarmament. This a real disgrace.
KOFI ANNAN
[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.
GREGORY BOYLE
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a ...
CHANAKYA
Don't try to bring about darkness on a Monday Don't let a Tuesday go thirsty Don't show temper to a ...
APURVA GAGLANI
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
AESCHYLUS
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, as...
JOHN GAY
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES
It is a downright disgrace. Russia is the only country that has reacted to the caricature scandal in...
IGOR YAKOVENKO
Killing in the name of religion is a big disgrace to the religion itself.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
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If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
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