OCCUPATION

Related Subjects: Business, Employment, Work

1. Oh, let us love our occupations,
   Bless the squire and his relations,
   Live upon our daily rations,
   And always know our proper stations.—DICKENS, The Chimes
   

2. What I advise is that each contentedly practise the trade he understands.—HORACE, Epistles
   

3. Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.—L. E. LANDON
   

4. He who busies himself in mean occupations produces, in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

5. Constant occupation prevents temptation.—Proverb
   

6. He that brings up his son to nothing breeds a thief.—Proverb
   

7. A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays.—Proverb
   

8. When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower.—RUSKIN, Sesame and Lilies
   

9. 'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

11. No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
    In brief, sir, study what you most affect.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew