Quotes About Labor

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Work is what horses die of

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called 'fun'.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.