Subject: Work (Page 22)

One thing about being a cabbie is that you don’t have to worry about being fired from a good job.

(1935 – ) American actor

Much work, much food; little work, little food; no work, burial at sea.

Manager: Someone who doesn’t know how to do your job, who tells you how to do your job.

Job: A state of employment everyone wants but few look forward to on a Monday morning.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn’t want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn’t remember to people who’ve already heard them.

(1898 – 1981) actor, singer, songwriter & movie producer

Sailors ought never to go to church; they ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

(1866 – 1946) English author

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix’ that's why he's never worked.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist , or is a therapist going to a therapist.

(1924 – 1984) American author

Executive: A person who can take two hours for lunch without anybody missing him.

A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

In any human enterprise, work seeks the lowest hierarchical level.

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

It’s not the work that keeps most people from doing volunteer work, it’s the pay!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

(1945 – ) American author

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

(1922 – 1999) labor union leader, president of the AFL-CIO

A guy gave me a job at an information booth – no questions asked.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

(1894 – 1980) American labor organizer

Simple jobs always get put off because there will be time to do them later.