Scott Adams Quotes

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Industry
  • Labor
  • Monarchy

• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Competition
  • Labor

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Exercise
  • Labor
  • Fitness

• Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

  

  Walter Duranty
  • Fire
  • Labor
  • Hot

• There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Labor

• There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Nation
  • Labor

• I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • I Believe
  • Labor
  • Men's Rights

• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Live
  • Generation
  • Labor

• Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Long
  • Chocolate
  • Drunk

• Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Labor
  • Labour

• Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Freedom
  • Individual
  • Inspiring

• What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Desire
  • Labor
  • Consumption

• I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Men
  • Labor

• You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Gold
  • Mankind
  • Labor

• Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

  

  Confucius
  • Lost
  • Learning
  • Labor

• So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

  

  William Kunstler
  • Important
  • Dating
  • Labor

• This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Passion
  • Development
  • Labor

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Comfort
  • Familiar
  • Familiarity

• I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Together

• Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Labor
  • Serial Killer
  • Manual