Bill Copeland Quotes

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Work hard, play hard.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.