Occupations Quotes
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience. (Quote by - Oliver Stone)
My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. (Quote by - Theodore John Kaczynski)
No woman or man need ever suffer from ennui or despair; the panacea is occupation. (Quote by - Mme. de Surin)
All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. (Quote by - George Lucas)
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Woman is largely occupied with man's work; in the sweat of her face the eats bread. It is like taking a Damascus blade to hew timber withal. (Quote by - Gail Hamilton)
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. (Quote by - Charles E. Wilson)
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. (Quote by - Victoria Woodhull)
One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman. (Quote by - Jacques de Lacretelle)
And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love. (Quote by - Alphonsus Liguori)
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality. (Quote by - Henry Fuseli)
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor." (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion? (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
The busy have no time for tears. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Occupied people are not unhappy people. (Quote by - Orville Dewey)
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry. (Quote by - Marquise de Sevigne)
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. (Quote by - Ahmed Ben Bella)
Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better. (Quote by - Robert Half)
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it. (Quote by - William Van Horne)
Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. (Quote by - William Falconer)
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Occupation is the armor of the soul. (Quote by - George Stillman Hillard)
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. (Quote by - Frederick Sanger)
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! . . . Labor is life. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Occupation is the scythe of time. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. (Quote by - Ellsworth Huntington)
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. (Quote by - Cicero)
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. (Quote by - Robert Rainy)
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
You see men of the mast delicate frames engaged in active and professional pursuits who really have no time for illness. Let them become idle--let them take care of themselves, let them think of their health--and they die! The rust rots the steel which use preserves. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. (Quote by - Jules Massenet)
Occupation alone is happiness. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world. (Quote by - George Whitefield)
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value; for it is the representative of eternity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. (Quote by - Malcolm Mclaren)
We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
Be not a jack of all trades, but a master of one.
I believe one reason why women are generally so much more cheerful than men is because they can work with the needle, and so endlessly vary their employment. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. (Quote by - Cicero)
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. (Quote by - Bernard Cornwell)
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. (Quote by - Boris Spassky)
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)
O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements. (Quote by - Thomas Chalmers)
