Maybe My Job Is Not So Bad After All

I work until beer o'clock. - Stephen King

I never work. Work does age you so. - Quentin Crisp

It's puzzling work, talking is. - George Eliot

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. - Mark Twain

The harder you work, the luckier you get. - Gary Player

A woman's work is never done - by men. - Unknown

The harder you work, the harder it is to lose. - Unknown

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. - Cato the Elder

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents. - George Clooney

The work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan. - Unknown

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Work before pleasure - for there is no real pleasure without work. - Unknown

Love and work are to people, what water and sunshine are to plants. - Jonathan Haidt

Work with the raw material you have - namely you - and never let up. - Helen G Brown

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. - Ogden Nash

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

Work hard for what you want, because it won't come to you without a fight. - Unknown

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter F Drucker

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. - Lawrence J Peter

His wallet is more capacious than an elephant's scrotum and just as difficult to get your hands on. - Blackadder

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. - Patrick Swayze

One of the endearing things about mathematicians is the extent to which they will go to avoid doing any real work. - Matthew Pordage

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me. - James Hudson Taylor

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. - Drew Goddard

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense. - Thomas Edison

Being confident with what you do drives you to achieve your goals, work at your best and overcome any challenges that come your way. - Matt Morris

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. - Ernest Hemingway

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung