“Now joblessness isn’t just for philosophy majors.”

Kent Brockman (from The Simpsons)

“I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.”

Billy Connolly

“Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.”

Edward Heath

“An ‘acceptable’  level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.”

Unknown

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”

Harry Truman

“What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?”

Gerald Barzan

“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.”

Slappy White

“Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.”

Cato the Elder

“The hardest work in the world is being out of work.”

Whitney Young  Jr.

“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”

Orson Scott Card

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