God sells us all things at the price of labor.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.

A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.