Alexander Pope Quotes

When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

I don't work that hard.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody paying for it. This is nice to know. It's nice to know that when you sit down to enjoy a plate of strawberries, somebody got paid very little so that you could have your strawberries. It doesn't mean the strawberries will taste different, but it's nice to enjoy things less than we do. We enjoy things far too much, and it leads to incredible pain and suffering.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.