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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Abraham Lincoln | My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. | |
| Anonymous | There's no real need to do housework - after four years it doesn't get any worse. | |
| Anonymous | There's no such thing as unskilled labor. Every job has a learning curve. | |
| Arnold Toynbee | The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. | |
| Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) | If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor. | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | |
| Don Marquis (1878 - 1937) | When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' | |
| Dorothy Day | No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. - (Peace Activist) | |
| Doug Larson | Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. | |
| Drew Carey | Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar! | |
| Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978) | Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. | |
| George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) | Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. - (minister, author, and creater of the fanstay gendre) | |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | Wood stumps warmed me twice -- once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire. | |
| Indira Gandhi | My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. | |
| Jerome K. Jerome | I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. | |
| Karl Friedrich Gauss | Ask her to wait a moment -- I am almost done. - (while working, when informed his wife was dying) | |
| Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) | People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. | |
| Otis Beck (1979 - ) | Job- a term used to describe most people in the civilized world today: just over broke. | |
| Quentin Crisp (1908 - 1999) | There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse. - (British writer, actor and wit) | |
| Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945) | Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. | |
| Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) | The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. | |
| Robert Morley | Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. | |
| Steven Wright | I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. | |
| Steven Wright (1955 - ) | Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. | |
| Unknown | All work and no play makes jack, and lots of it. | |
| Unknown | Work fascinates me --I could sit and watch it all day. | |
| William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) | It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. |
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