It's a man's joböno place for women's plans here!öwhat lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

-Aeschylus
Septem contra Thebas, l.200^1 (translated by C M Dawson).

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech, 9  Jan.

Being a husband isawhole-timejob.That iswhysomany husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
  The Title, act1.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 35:16.

So the L blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDJob 42:12.

Here is the answer that I will give to President Roosevelt† Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb.

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my motherand father.It wasnot until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

-Crisp, Quentin
  The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

The difficultest job a man can do, is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week, and feel that that's the proper thing for you.

-Davidson,John
  Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza15.

I want†the $60 GI job and no medals on my chest.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
   To President Truman, 25 Nov. Quoted in Michael R Beschloss Eisenhower (1990).

No vers is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Introduction to Ezra Pound Poems.

All books are the Book of Job, high moral tests and tasks set in fairy tales, landmined and unforgiving as golf greens, as steeplechase and gameboard and obstacle course. 310

-Elkin, Stanley Lawrence
  'The Future of the Novel', in the NewYork Times,17 Feb.

To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

-Thibault
Crainquebille.

Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck†as Speaker of the House† Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

-Garner,John Nance
  In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses.

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise.But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.

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

I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Romeöthat they should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.

-Knight, Frank Hyneman
  Collected in Essays on theHistory and Method of Economics (1956).

To be yersel'söand to mak'that worth bein'. Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

-Grieve
  A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.745^6.

My job, as I see it, has never been to laya tit's egg, but to erupt like a volcano emitting not only flame but a lot of rubbish.

-Grieve
  Letter to George Bruce,1  Jul.

The man lies late since he has lost his job, smokes on one elbow, letting his coughs fall thinly into an air too poor to rob.

-Morgan, Edwin George
  'Glasgow Sonnets, I'.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Palmerston

-Paley, Grace ne¤  e  Goodside
  Begin Again: New and Collected Poems,'Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from theWorkThey Love'.