Society and the World

The sooner we get rid of losing, the happier everyone will be.

He was as successful as a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

I haven't failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Nobody works as hard for their money as the person who marries it.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Working for Warner Bros is like fucking a porcupine - it's a hundred pricks against one.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have do something else.

I wish my son would learn a trade. At least we'd know what kind of work he's out of.

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

In the days when I went to work, I never once knew what I was doing. These days, I never work. Work does age one so.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

I am glad to hear you smoke. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow dishes for Chinese restaurants.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.