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When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Sep 28, 2025
Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.
There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.
A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.
After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.
I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.
I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
No one's dream job involves a kiosk.
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.
People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.