Deconstruction

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. - Oscar Wilde

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

Work is the curse of the drinking class. - Oscar Wilde

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. - Milton Berle

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. - Polish Proverb

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J Paul Getty

When the devil finds a lazy woman, he puts her to work. - Russian Proverb

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands. - Fred Perry

With his work, as with a glove, a man feels the universe. - Tomas Transtromer

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

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. - Zig Ziglar

From each according to his ability, to each according to his work - Claude de Rouvroy

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. - George D. Prentice

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. - Jerry Seinfeld

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. - Coco Chanel

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

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously. - Jay Leno

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

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. - Joseph Joubert

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort. - Tom Rath

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. - Leonard Nimoy

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. - Emo Philips

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. - Morgan Freeman

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it because when they fired me, I had to show up at work anyway. - Wally Wang

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? - Barbara Streisand

I thank the Lord I no longer have to go to work. I just get out of bed in the morning, and there it is - all around me. - Unknown

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 democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. - Shakti Gawain

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

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