Mark Twain on “Work versus Play”
August 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pmThere’s a lovely quote by Mark Twain in “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” about the difference between working and playing:
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it–namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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September 10th, 2008 at 22:05
That’s a great quote to pull out of that book. Something more people should ponder on, to be sure.