Unemployed Workmen Act

Famous quotes containing the words unemployed, workmen and/or act:

“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)

“The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)