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Quotes About Work

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
~ Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
~ Samuel Johnson
Working for the Man seemed really good to me.
~ Shepard Smith
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
~ T. S. Eliot
I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
~ Werner Herzog
Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
~ William Feather
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
~ Aristotle
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
~ Solomon
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey
~ Steve Martin
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
~ Walter Lippmann
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
~ William Langland
Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.
~ Henry Benjamin Whipple
You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
~ Jeannette Walls
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
~ John Calvin
The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
~ Charles Bukowski
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.
~ Evan Esar
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.
~ Michael Peterson
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.
~ Murray Leinster
I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
~ Olivia Thirlby
Hope is a working-man's dream.
~ Pliny the Elder
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
~ Henry Ford