One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan.

Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labor be?

Those who work much do not work hard.

Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

This little box will be your home for sixty hours a week. It comes with an obsolete computer and a binder about safety hazards. Your challenge is to look busy until someone gives you a meaningful assignment.