Works may refer to:
- An author's or artist's body of work of art
- Engineering structures, projects, and so on, including:
- Earthworks (engineering), created through moving soil or unformed rock
- Public works, engineering projects carried out by the state on behalf of the community
- Waterworks, another name for a water supply system
- In motorsports, works are cars sponsored and tuned by automobile manufacturers; see factory-backed
- In religion, works, deeds or actions in contrast to faith
- Good works in Christianity
- Karma, literally "deeds", in Hinduism
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“... no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of its abominations.... even were slavery no curse to its victims, the exercise of arbitrary power works such fearful ruin upon the hearts of slaveholders, that I should feel impelled to labor and pray for its overthrow with my last energies and latest breath.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)
“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. They have only been read as the multitude read the stars, at most astrologically, not astronomically.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Now they express
All that’s content to wear a worn-out coat,
All actions done in patient hopelessness,
All that ignores the silences of death,
Thinking no further than the hand can hold,
All that grows old,
Yet works on uselessly with shortened breath.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)