I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar
I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo,/ Shovel them under and let me work -/ I am the grass; I cover all.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.