Hours Weekly

Famous quotes containing the words hours and/or weekly:

“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn’t brotherly—who lived mostly under his parents’ roof ... who advocated one day’s work and six days “off” as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown ... is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)