"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." - Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur mis à nu

"Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job." - 'Bits & Pieces'

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Brown Jr

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green." - Thomas Carlyle

"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses." - Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura

"If you pursue good with labour, the labour passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains." - Cicero

"When you are labouring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself." - Confucius

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom." - Albert Einstein

"Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles." - William Feather

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another." - Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep." - Benjamin Franklin

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour." - Victor Hugo

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." - Saskya Pandita

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan

"Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased." - Adam Smith

"Without labour nothing prospers." - Sophocles

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee--that will do them in." - Bradley's Bromide

"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Collingwood, R. G.

"Work is love made visible." - Gibran, Kahlil

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Johnson, Samuel

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." - Joubert, Joseph

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them." - Tomlin, Lily

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - VanDyke, Henry

"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." - Will, George [Columnist]