A Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
American - Priest
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

Jacob Braude

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Charles Spurgeon

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

LL Cool J

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Samuel Smiles

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Marcel Proust

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Stanley Kubrick

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

Evan Esar

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

David O. McKay

People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!

Rick Warren

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

William Randolph Hearst

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

Max Lucado

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

Oswald J. Smith

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

Malcolm Forbes

Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.