Occupations Quotes

“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”

“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.”

“Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?”

“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”

“...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men”

“Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.”

“Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.”

“Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.”

“Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.”

“Oh, let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.”