Quotes
Quotes about Work
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.
No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. - Wisdom for Our Time.
God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.
