Work Quotes

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Continual complexity makes it impossible for any of us to know anything outside our own personal field-I can't follow the work of the man sitting at the next desk over from me. Too much knowledge has piled up in each field. And there's too many fields." ~ The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. ~ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune." ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens "Housekeeping ain't no joke." ~ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe "Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!" ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "Being a husband is a whole-time job. That's why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it." ~ The Title by Arnold Bennett "The natur o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay. ~ Billy Budd by Herman Melville