Employ

Famous quotes containing the word employ:

“Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Some must employ the scythe
Upon the grasses,
That the walks be smooth
For the feet of the angel.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)