Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?
Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.
Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all. . . and pile on the years.
I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.
A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.
Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.