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:
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
—Hannah More (1745–1833)
“We thus worked our way up this river, gradually adjusting our thoughts to novelties, beholding from its placid bosom a new nature and new works of men, and, as it were with increasing confidence, finding nature still habitable, genial, and propitious to us; not following any beaten path, but the windings of the river, as ever the nearest way for us. Fortunately, we had no business in this country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)