"We've got everything to do here, and nothing to do it with but our hands.  Never waste a lick, and make every lick work twice for you if you can.  No man lives long enough to get done all he wants to do, but if he works slipshod and has got to do it over, then he wastes his life."
-Attributed to and quoted at the funeral services for William Stradling, my great great grandfather on your great grandmother's side.