Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Work.

The repository contains 66 quotes in the category “Work.”
Showing quotes 41 through 60 in the category “Work.” Page 1 2 3 4.

Be thankful if your job is a little harder than you like. A razor can’t be sharpened on a piece of velvet.

Unknown

Ulcers are contagious. You can get them from your boss.

Unknown

A lot of folks are flocking to Washington to ask what they can do for their country, and what the salary will be.

Unknown

Don’t worry about the job you don’t like. Someone else will soon have it.

Unknown

It seems a lot of young people want an occupation that doesn’t keep them occupied.

Unknown

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Milton Berle
1908 — 2002

One of the saddest things is that the thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat for eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours a day. All you can do for eight hours is work.

William Faulkner
1888 — 1965

It’s always been and will always be in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman gets tipped.

Unknown

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost
1874 — 1963

If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would mave made them with mouths only and no hands.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

He that laboreth, laboreth for himself, for his mouth craveth it of him.

The Bible

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair
1878 — 1968

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost
1874 — 1963

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Richard Whatley
1787 — 1863

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan
1911 — 1980

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot
1826 — 1877

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment

Robert Benchley
1889 — 1945

Today, too many workers spend their time trying to make their weekends meet.

MAD Magazine

Most people don’t mind a hard day’s work, just as long as they’re not in that day.

MAD Magazine

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