Quotations for Your Workday: Humorous

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

–Edgar Bergen (1903–1978), (Charlie McCarthy)

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 (1874–1963)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

–Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), The Conquest of Happiness, chapter 5

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today." Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

–J.A. Spender (1862–1942)

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

–Sam Donaldson (1934–)

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.

–Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

–Robert Orben (1927–)

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

–Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE)

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

–Anonymous

See the other sections in this series: • Quotations for Your Workday: Motivational • Quotations for Your Workday: Humorous, but Serious • Quotations for Your Workday: On Bosses

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