Work Quotes

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However,
few escape that distinction. —Mark Twain,A Tramp Abroad, 1880

 

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had
pimples. —George Burns, attributed

 

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire. —Margaret
Mead, attributed

 

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The
saddest are the ones who are retired. —George Burns, interview with
Arthur Marx, Cigar Aficionado (New York), 1994

 

Retirement is the most loathsome word in the English language.
—Ernest Hemingway, attributed

 

Mandatory retirement ought to be illegal.
—Maggie Kuhn, quoted by Carol Offen, “Profile of a Gray
Panther,” Retirement Living,December 1972

 

If you don’t work, what the hell do you do? Sit around and rot! The
retirement age of 65 has killed millions.Luckily, I’m in an industry with
no retirement. They only retire you if you don’t make money for them.
—Bette Davis, quoted by Dotson Rader, Parade (New York), 1983

 

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it
for love of it. —Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle,” The
Atlantic Monthly (Boston), 1863

 

You take my life / When you do take the means whereby I live.
—William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1596

 

If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so
that you won’t have to work. —Ogden Nash, “More About People,”
Many Long Years Ago, 1945

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