Henny Youngman Quotes

My husband and I work for a living.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

As we manage our time I think we shall never get out of employment.

I have not settled down with a life partner.

I have no time to think about a second marriage at all.

I have never hidden my marital status.

I don't fight just because I love it just that much. I'm fighting because it's a job for me.

People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don't talk about it because I don't think about it. I don't ever question other peoples' versions of how they live their lives or what they do.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

The concept of marriage does not matter to me.

My marriage and my career are my two top priorities.

About my love life, I would like to say I am single till I have a ring on the right finger and a wedding date.

It's my business. Fighting, it's my business. It's my job.

I've had two jobs and one wife.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.