You may have noticed that “work” is a four letter word. Well, “play” is too. People of our era have been indoctrinated with the “Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow” philosophy. But maybe the reality is that we just need to find a little balance between work and play…

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

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-Oscar Wilde

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
-Francesca Reigler

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Donald Kendall

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
-Bertrand Russell

A bum asked me “Give me $10 till payday.” I asked “When’s payday?” He said “I don’t know, you’re the one who is working!”
-Henny Youngman