Laborsaving Quotes & Sayings

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us. — Henry Ward Beecher

Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all. — Clare Balding

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life. — Darren Johnson

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He said he had evidence that the Company was giving the opposition party money, which was just preposterous considering what bad form it would have been, trusting anybody in the Third World with money. — Marlon James

Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis. — John Scalzi

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that. — Carly Fiorina

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle

Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration. — Louise Erickson

Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural. — Hilary Kornblith

Maybe the moon just lost herself gazing too long at the brilliance of the sun and that's how she got her glow.

And maybe we're made of the same
mysterious sort of magic that makes us magnify and mirror whatever we look at the most. — Cristen Rodgers

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past ... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment. — Henry George

it is evident that there is another logical alternative: that there can be societies in which difference is not necessarily equated with inferiority or superiority. — Riane Eisler

Mini-Hedge would stomp around on Buford's top, randomly saying things like "CUT THAT OUT!" "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" and the ever-popular "PUT SOME CLOTHES ON! — Rick Riordan

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley