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Funny Work Quotes

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S. Truman

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

Bill Sienkiewicz

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

Lars von Trier

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Denis Norden

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

Seth MacFarlane

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Donna Tartt

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

Val Guest

Hard Work Quotes

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

James Cash Penney

Work-Life Balance Quotes

I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.

John Forsythe

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Tom Hanks

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

Richard Branson

More Work Quotes

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Samuel Richardson

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mohandas Gandhi

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Gustave Flaubert

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mohandas Gandhi

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Gustave Flaubert

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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