Work Quotes

I don't like work--no man does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself. ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad "Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?" ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "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." ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me." ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it." ~ The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle