“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost

“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.  Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.”  - “Fats” Domino

“Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids.  This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.”  - Scott Adams

“The brain is a wonderful organ.  It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.”  - Robert Frost

“If you don’t like your job you don’t strike.  You just go in every day and do it really half-assed.  That’s the American way.” ~Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.” – Hal Lancaster

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” – Henry J. Kaiser

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace

“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” – Howard Newton

“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