Quotes about Work
I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
- Maxine Peake
Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.
- Karl Barth
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
- John Bunyan
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
- Samuel Johnson
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
- Samuel Johnson
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
- John Calvin
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- Charles Spurgeon
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
- Henry Ford
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- George Bernard Shaw
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
- Henry Ward Beecher