Funny Work Saying
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
Steve Martin
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done...
Anonymous
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office.
Robert Frost
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
John Mortimer
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
Demetri Martin
President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'
Craig Kilborn
Today is 'Take our Daughters to Work Day.' This is when girls ages Nine to Fifteen go to work. Or, as it's called at the Nike factory - Thursday.
Bill Maher
Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
Leslie Nielsen
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
Slappy White
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'.
Robert Paul
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.
Dennis Miller
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K Jerome (Three Men in a Boat, 1889)
The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse
Dennis Miller (quoted in Underground Humor, 1997, ed: Edward Bergin)