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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
First Appeared in 1721
If a task has once begun.
Never leave it till it's done.
Be the labor great or small.
Do it well or not at all.
Most people still believe in a hard day’s work, but they also believe it should be spread out over the course of a week or two.
Most bosses never lift a finger at work, unless it’s to point out something you did wrong.
Most people don’t mind a hard day’s work, just as long as they’re not in that day.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment
He that laboreth, laboreth for himself, for his mouth craveth it of him.
If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would mave made them with mouths only and no hands.
It’s always been and will always be in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman gets tipped.
One of the saddest things is that the thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat for eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours a day. All you can do for eight hours is work.
It seems a lot of young people want an occupation that doesn’t keep them occupied.