Mary McCarthy Quotes

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I don't think I've had a job since I worked for my father's construction company.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Work is the province of cattle.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old employer, but on a part-time basis. Some labor economists predict that in about five years there will be a labor shortage in the United States and that demand for retirees to work part-time will grow naturally. I don't know if that's true or just wishful predicting.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I keep saying we've got 92 million Americans on the beach. They're not working, and they're all eating, and they're all making phone calls, and they're all watching television. But they're not working. You mean to tell me if you tell them that to keep all that they're going to have to get a job, that that is a detriment to your campaign?

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

A job is a job. And I like to work.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.