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    A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

    Robert Frost
    Work
  2. 2

    A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

    Work
  3. 3

    A man grows most tired while standing still.

    Work
  4. 4

    A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

    Joseph Conrad
    Work
  5. 5

    A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

    Thomas Carlyle
    Work
  6. 6

    A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

    Emily Brontë
    Work
  7. 7

    A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

    Horace
    Work
  8. 8

    A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

    W. H. Auden
    Work
  9. 9

    A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

    Work
  10. 10

    A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

    Paul Valéry
    Work
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    After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

    Joseph Brodsky
    Work
  12. 12

    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

    Work
  13. 13

    Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

    Leonard Cohen
    Work
  14. 14

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

    Robert Benchley
    Work
  15. 15

    As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

    Katharine Hepburn
    Work
  16. 16

    At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

    Publilius Syrus
    Work
  17. 17

    Blessed is that man who has found his work.

    Elbert Hubbard
    Work
  18. 18

    Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

    François de La Rochefoucauld
    Work
  19. 19

    Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

    Cato the Elder
    Work
  20. 20

    Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

    Confucius
    Work
  21. 21

    Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

    John Kenneth Galbraith
    Work
  22. 22

    Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Work
  23. 23

    Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

    Eugène Delacroix
    Work
  24. 24

    Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

    Dale Carnegie
    Work
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    Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

    Work

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