Behan Brendan 1923-1964
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Drucker Peter 1909-
The really important things are said over
cocktails and are never done.
Eliot George 1819-1880
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done
once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
If you want a thing done, go - if not, send.
Hewart Gordon 1870-1943
(Rex v Sussex Justices)
A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
Lloyd George David 1863-1945
[Clemenceau] knows that the finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them.
Lucan 39-65 AD
Pharsalia
Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.
Luther Martin 1483-1546
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
Osborne John
Time Present
She's like the old line about justice - not only must
be done, but must be seen to be done.
Patmore Coventry 1823-1896
The Angel in the House
We love, Fool, for the good we do,
Not that which unto us is done!
Proverbs and Sayings
Scottish
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Rhodes Cecil 1853-1902
(on the day of his death)
So little done, so much to do.
Richler Mordecai
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time.
Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
Roosevelt Eleanor 1884-1962
What one has to do usually can be done.
Ryan Joe
A committee of one gets things done.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Cymbeline
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy wordly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
What's done cannot be undone.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Major Barbara
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are
prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Vidal Gore
[Commercialism is] doing well that which should not be done at all.
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Woodruff Julia Louise Matilda 1833-1909
Out of the strain of the Doing
Into the peace of the Done.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
‘No Second Troy'
Why, what could she have done being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?