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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. (Quote by - Jacqueline Bisset)

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing. (Quote by - Winifred Holtby)

Many hands make light work. (Quote by - William Patten)

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. (Quote by - Paul Laurence Dunbar)

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Do your duty until it becomes your joy. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

I do not like work even when someone else does it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. (Quote by - Anna Howard Shaw)

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. (Quote by - Anna Pavlova)

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done. (Quote by - Alice Cary)

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my labor. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that. (Quote by - Betty Friedan)

What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously, and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. (Quote by - Margot Fonteyn)

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. (Quote by - William Osler)

The Gods rank work above virtues. (Quote by - Hesiod)

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally. (Quote by - Louise Nevelson)

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)

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