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  • It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

    -Aeschylus
    Septem contra Thebas, l.200^1 (translated by C M Dawson).

  • The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

    - Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley)
      Speech, 9  Jan.

  • Being a husband isawhole-timejob.That iswhysomany husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

    - (Enoch) Arnold Bennett
      The Title, act1.

  • Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Job 35:16.

  • So the L blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDJob 42:12.

  • Here is the answer that I will give to President Roosevelt† Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

    - Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
      Radio broadcast, 9 Feb.

  • Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my motherand father.It wasnot until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

    - Quentin Crisp
      The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

  • The difficultest job a man can do, is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week, and feel that that's the proper thing for you.

    -John Davidson
      Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza15.

  • I want†the $60 GI job and no medals on my chest.

    - Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
       To President Truman, 25 Nov. Quoted in Michael R Beschloss Eisenhower (1990).

  • No vers is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Introduction to Ezra Pound Poems.

  • All books are the Book of Job, high moral tests and tasks set in fairy tales, landmined and unforgiving as golf greens, as steeplechase and gameboard and obstacle course. 310

    - Stanley Lawrence Elkin
      'The Future of the Novel', in the NewYork Times,17 Feb.

  • To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

    -Thibault
    Crainquebille.

  • Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck†as Speaker of the House† Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

    -John Nance Garner
      In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

  • Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

    -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
      Ulysses.

  • Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise.But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.

    -John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
      The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

  • I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Romethat they should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.

    - Frank Hyneman Knight
      Collected in Essays on theHistory and Method of Economics (1956).

  • To be yersel'sand to mak'that worth bein'. Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

    -Grieve
      A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.745^6.

  • My job, as I see it, has never been to laya tit's egg, but to erupt like a volcano emitting not only flame but a lot of rubbish.

    -Grieve
      Letter to George Bruce,1  Jul.

  • The man lies late since he has lost his job, smokes on one elbow, letting his coughs fall thinly into an air too poor to rob.

    - Edwin George Morgan
      'Glasgow Sonnets, I'.

  • No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Palmerston

    - Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley
      Begin Again: New and Collected Poems,'Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from theWorkThey Love'.

  • How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and18,000 people boo?

    -Jacques Plante
    Attributed. Quoted inJohn Robert Colombo (ed) Colombo's All- Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994).

  • It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

    - B Earl Puckett
    Recalled on his death, in Newsweek, 23 Feb1976.

  • The person who knows'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

    - Diane Silvers Ravitch
      Speech at Reed College commencement. Reported in Time,17 Jun.

  • Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. SeeTruman 868:38.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Election campaign speech, Jersey City,1 Sep.

  • If they will only do their job†that is all that they are being overpaid for.

    - David O(liver) Selznick
    Of his stars, while filmingThe Garden of Allah. Quoted in Maria Riva Marlene Dietrich (1992).

  • In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.

    -Jonathan Swift
      'Verses on the Upright Judge'.

  • My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)† The most improper job of any man is bossing other men.

    -J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
      Letter to ChristopherTolkien, 29 Apr.

  • It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. See Reagan 680:55.

    - Harry S Truman
      In the Observer,13 Apr.

  • I donot mind the Liberals, still less do Imind the Country party, calling me a bastard. In some circumstances, I am only doing my job if they do. But I hope that you will not publicly call me a bastard, as some bastards in the Caucus have.

    - (Edward) Gough Whitlam
      Speech to theAustralian Labor Party, 9 Jun.

  • All are deceptions, substitutes for the hard job of using reason and industry and intuition and compassion to solve even a little bit of the muddle with humaneness and awe for the natural world and the complexity of human beings.

    - SirAngus FrankJohnstone Wilson
      Letter to David Farrer, his publisher, Jul. Quoted in Margaret Drabble AngusWilsonA Biography (1995).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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