Unemployed Workmen

Famous quotes containing the words unemployed and/or workmen:

“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)