work - quotes

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

Robert (Lee) Frost, 1874-1963

was an American poet

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

Jerome K(lapka) Jerome, 1859-1927

was a British humor writer

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

was a 16th president of US

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

Elbert (Green) Hubbard, 1856-1915

was an US author

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

( Observer, Jan. 15, 1950 )

Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

was a French poet

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

George Macdonald, 1824-1905

was a Scottish novelist and poet

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Ellen DeGeneres, 1958-

is an American stand-up comedian, television host and actress

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for — in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.