I will undoubtedly havetoseek what ishappily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  On resigning as Secretary of State to resume his career as a lawyer. In Time, 22 Dec.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

-Addison,Joseph
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it.Wants steadyemployment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

-Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis
  Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

   When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man'sö Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Sergeant's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act 2.

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life†to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage or punished for neglect† Among these unhappy mortals isthe writer of dictionaries† Every other author mayaspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

I agree that our methods of control are unlikely to be sufficiently delicate or sufficiently powerful to maintain continuous full employment. I should be quite content with a reasonable approximation to it, and in practice I should probably relax my expansionist measures a little before technical full employment had actually been reached.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  Letter to E F M Durbin, 30  Apr.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitraryand inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendencyamong landlords and persons of property tobuild,toimproveand beautify theirgrounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  Principles of Political Economy.

   One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  Many LongYears  Ago,'Very Like  A  Whale'.

These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Laputa, etc.'ch.6.

Sir Henry Wotton†was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletime†a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'

-Walton, Izaak
  The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.1.