“There’s no time to rest when there’s work to be done. Eat on the run, forget about sleep, and change horses often” is sometimes described as a Texas proverb or an old-time cowboy proverb, but there is no evidence that this was used in the old west. The saying first appeared in Don’t Squat with Your Spurs On!: A Cowboy’s Guide to Life (1992), by Texas Bix Bender.
Google Books
Don’t Squat with Your Spurs On!:
A Cowboy’s Guide to Life
By Texas Bix Bender
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith
1992
Pg. 66:
THERE’S NO TIME TO REST
when there’s work to be done. Eat on the run, forget about sleep, and change horses often.
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There’s no time to rest when there’s work to be done. Eat on the run, forget about sleep, and change horses often.
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“There’s no time to rest when there’s work to be done. Eat on the run, forget about sleep, and change horses often.” - Texas proverb
1:28 PM - 27 Nov 11 from Lubbock, TX
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Cowboy wisdom for GOP and Democratic conventions
By Patrick Dorinson
Published August 24, 2012
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For Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan…
There’s no time to rest when there’s work to be done. Eat on the run, forget about sleep and change horses often.
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