All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

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About Evan Esar

Evan Esar (1899–1995) was an American humorist who wrote Esar's Comic Dictionary in 1943, Humorous English in 1961, and 20,000 Quips and Quotes in 1968.

More quotations from Evan Esar

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

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The work here isn't to figure out why they didn't like you, or who's right and who's wrong. It's to practice being okay with the idea that there are some people who will get you and some people who won't… and that's fine.

—Reshma Saujani in Not Perfect

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There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve.

—Mia Sheridan in Becoming Calder

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The fact is, being married to your job for some portion or all of your life, even if it does in some way inhibit romantic prospects, is not necessarily a terrible fate, provided that you are lucky enough to enjoy your work, or the money you earn at it, or the respect it garners you, or the people you do it with.

—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work—I merely inflict myself upon the public.

—Robert Morley

Working hard feels good. Of course it's exhausting and stressful and causes you to miss a party or two, but at the end of the day it is so rewarding. One of the best feelings in the world is when you know that luck didn't play a role in your success. Doing work eliminates the need for luck.

—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse

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