My work is a game, a very serious game.

—M.C. Escher

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.

—Betty Bender

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

—Ogden Nash

When a lot of men first go to work, they’re in a sweat for fear they’ll be fired; and the second week for fear they won’t.

—George Lorimer

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

—Robert Benchley

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

—Voltaire

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

—Edgar Bergin

Find a job you like and add five days to every week.

—H. Jackson Browne

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If you ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

—Howard Aiken

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

—Douglas Adams

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you.  They say that by the time you wake up you’ll feel so good, you’ll be able to start looking for a new job.

—Jay Leno

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between 40 and 60 hours a week.

—Robert Frost

I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work.  And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. 

—Bill Gold

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

—James Matthew Barrie

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

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Stephen Jay Gould