Hour Work Week

Famous quotes containing the words hour, work and/or week:

    “If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “To see distinctly the machinery—the wheels and pinions—of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.”
    —Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)